 | Tom Telescope, John Newbery - Science - 1794 - 166 pages
...mediate. When, by comparing two ideas together in^the mind, we perceive their agreement or diiagreement, as that black is not white ; that the whole is bigger...Perception, or Intuitive Knowledge ; and as the truth of thefe and the like propofitions portions is ib evident as to be known by a iimple intuition of the... | |
 | Tom Telescope - Science - 1808 - 188 pages
...affirmative or negative propositions ; and this perception is either immediate or mediate. When, bycomparing two ideas together in the mind, we perceive their...known by a simple intuition of the ideas themselves, they are also called Self-evident Propositions. Mediate perception is when the agreement or disagreement... | |
 | Edward Nichols Dennys - 1871 - 408 pages
...Circle is not a Triangle, that two parallel lines can never meet, that the whole of anything is greater than a part, and that two and two are equal to four ? Dull. — I do not. Dion. — Why ? Dull. — They are too self-evident to be disputed : it is impossible... | |
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... that two and two are equal to four, &c. it is called immediate perception, or intuitive knowledge; and as the truth of these and the like propositions is so evident as to be known by a simple intuition of the ideas themselves, they are also called... 