 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 308 pages
...mind by a series of consequences, from premises to a conclusion ? 74. " When the mind," says Locke, " perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas...themselves, without the intervention of any other, its knowledge may be called intuitive. When it cannot so bring its ideas together, as by their immediate... | |
 | Charles Richardson - 1856 - 952 pages
...; insight, sc. -IVELT. immediate, instant; — without further thought or examination. " If we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find,...and this, I think, we may call intuitive knowledge." — Locke. Fr /n/Kif-i/; It & Sp. -fro, from L. In-tmtri, imlmilvt, to look Into. INTUMESCENCE,* ,.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 pages
...his notions concerning them were not sufficiently precise and settled. " When the mind," says he, " perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas...themselves, without the intervention of any other, its knowledge may be called intuitive. When it cannot so bring its ideas together as, by their immediate... | |
 | James McCosh - 1860 - 512 pages
...He gives an important place to intuition. 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... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - 912 pages
...'Anticipation of Nature,' the latter the 'Interprctation of Nature.' " INTUITION (from intneor, to behold). — "Sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement...intervention of any other ; and this, I think, we may call iatuitive knowledge. For in this the mind is at no pains of proving or examining, but perceives the... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - 698 pages
...'Anticipation of Nature,' the latter the 'Interpretation of Nature.' " INTUITION (from intueor, to behold). — "Sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement...the intervention of any other ; and this, I think, wo may call intuitive knowledge. For in this the mind is at no pains of proving or examining, but perceives... | |
 | 1860 - 556 pages
...influencing the character. Now, this can scarcely apply to that intuitive knowledge by which, Locke says, "the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement...themselves, without the intervention of any other." We must, however, refer our readers to the author's own pages, if they desire to know more of his intuitional... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 900 pages
...which a thin» is known or comprehended immediately, u soon as it is perceived or attended to. When the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, immediately by themselves, witbout the invention of any other, this id intuitive; for in this the mind is at no pains of proving... | |
 | Rev. John Levington - 1863 - 288 pages
...it in the sense in which others use it. In his " Essay on the Human Understanding," Locke says : " Sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement...and this, I think, we may call intuitive knowledge." He gives other instances of what he thinks may be called the intuitive ; yet Mr. C. represents both... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1864 - 206 pages
...mind by a series of consequences, from premises to a conclusion ? 74. " When the mind (says Locke) perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas...themselves, without the intervention of any other, its knowledge may be called intuitive. When it cannot so bring its ideas together, as by their immediate... | |
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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. 
