 For if we reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other: and this, I think, we may call intuitive knowledge.  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 69by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...that they bring many ideas with them, bating, perhaps, some faint ideas of hunger and thirst. LOCKE. ns to behold their Go.l ; whose magic touch kindled the rays of genius, LOCKE. An innate light discovers the common notions of good and evil, which by cultivation and improvement... | |
 | James McCosh - Intuition - 1882 - 472 pages
...an important place to intuition in Book rv. 3. He fixes on self-evidence as the mark of intuition. "Sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement...and this I think we may call intuitive knowledge. From this the mind is at no pains of proving or examining, but perceives the truth, as the eye doth... | |
 | James McCosh - Philosophy - 1884 - 96 pages
...place to intuition. " Our highest degree of knowledge is intuitive without reasoning." " For if we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find...immediately by themselves without the intervention of any others ; and this, I think, may be called intuitive knowledge. For in this the mind is at no pains... | |
 | W. M. Buchanan - Science - 1884 - 858 pages
...ÍHÍMÍfi«, immediate 'tnowledge. KnowN-dee not obtained by deductive reasoning ; also the act wherrby the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of...themselves without the intervention of any other, In which case the mind perceives the truth at the eye doc« the light, only by being directed towards... | |
 | James McCosh - Philosophy - 1887 - 340 pages
...place to intuition. " Our highest degree of knowledge is intuitive without reasoning." " For if we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find...immediately by themselves without the intervention of any others ; and this, I think, may be called intuitive knowledge. For in this the mind is at no pains... | |
 | Thomas Case - Cognition - 1888 - 442 pages
...this alone it consists.' * Locke proceeds to divide knowledge into intuition and reasoning. He says that ' sometimes the mind perceives the agreement...immediately by themselves without the intervention of any others : and this, I think, we may call intuitive knowledge! 2 He adds that ' when the mind cannot... | |
 | Thomas Case - Cognition - 1888 - 434 pages
...this alone it consists.' 1 Locke proceeds to divide knowledge into intuition and reasoning. He says that ' sometimes the mind perceives the agreement...immediately by themselves without the intervention of any others : and this, I think, we may call intuitive knowledge.' 'l He adds that ' when the mind cannot... | |
 | Mattoon Monroe Curtis - Ethics - 1890 - 168 pages
...the Scottish School. Intuition furnishes first principles. "It consists in the mind's perception of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, immediately...themselves without the intervention of any other. In this the mind is at no pains in proving or examining, but perceives the truth as the eye does the... | |
 | Francis Asbury Shoup - Personality - 1891 - 380 pages
...In the fourth book of the essay there is constant recognition of this truth. He says : " If we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find...the intervention of any other : and this, I think, may be called intuitive knowledge. For in this the mind is at no pains of proving or examining, but... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1892 - 572 pages
...way of perception the mind has of the agreement or disagreement of any of its ideas. For if we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find,...intuitive knowledge. For in this the mind is at no pains ol proving or examining, but perceives the truth as the eye doth light, only by being directed towards... | |
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