CHAPTER II.
OF THE DEGREES OF OUR KNOWLEDGE.
1.

Of the degrees, or differences in clearness, of our Knowledge: I.Intuitive All our knowledge consisting, as I have said, in the view the mind has of its own ideas, which is the utmost light and greatest certainty we, with our faculties, and in our way of knowledge, are capable of, it may not be amiss to consider a little the degrees of its evidence.

The different clearness of our knowledge seems to me to lie in the different 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 will 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.

For in this the mind is at no pains of proving or examining, but perceives the truth as the eye doth light, only by being directed towards it.