 | Ernst Reinhold - 1829 - 612 pages
...perception the mind has of the agreement and disagreement of any of its ideas. i) 1. c. If we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find,...perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immedia tely by themselves, without the intervention of any other, and this, I think, we may call intuitive... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 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... | |
 | Lord Peter King King - Great Britain - 1829 - 426 pages
...perceiving the agreement or disagreement of any of our ideas, so is the evidence of our knowledge different. Sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately ; thus it perceives that red is not yellow, that a circle is not a triangle, that three is more than... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 608 pages
...In the English use of the word, it is confined to mental perception, and signifies the act whereby the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of...themselves, without the intervention of any other ; in which case, the mind perceives the truth, as the eye does the light, merely by being directed... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 536 pages
...perception the mind has of the agreement or disagreement of any of its ideas. When the mind perceives this agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately...themselves, without the intervention of any other, we may call it intuitive knowlege, in which cases the mind perceives truth as the eye does light, only... | |
 | John Locke - 1831 - 458 pages
...perception the mind has of the agreement or disagreement of any of its ideas. When the mind perceives this agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately...themselves, without the intervention of any other, we may call it intuitive knowlege, in which cases the mind perceives truth as the eye does light, only... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 618 pages
...In the English use of the word, it is confined to mental perception, and signifies the act whereby the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of...themselves, without the intervention of any other ; in which case, the mind perceives the truth, as the eye does the light, merely by being directed... | |
 | Charles Richardson - English language - 1839 - 928 pages
...of thinking, we stall find, that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of l*o ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention...and this, I think, we may call intuitive knowledge." — ¡лЛе. ft. InltH-if; It. & Sp. -Ico, from L. I«-lueri, hhiftu, to look into. »-TUMESCENCE,*... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1839 - 526 pages
...and not precisely the same.' His definition, or rather explanation, of intuition is as follows: — 'Sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, and this, I think, we may call intuitive knowledge. In this the mind is at no pains of proving or examining,... | |
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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. 
