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the idea of succession and series. Being
Characterisdevoid of every sort of ratiocinative ele- ei
tic Indica
tion of Keval ment, we may call it 'Intuition' power. By or Intuition. Intuitive knowledge we mean, of course, what we get by a single stroke of cognition, unadulterated by any of the processes of representation. As for us, finite beings, conditioned naturally by the relativity of thought, we cannot have this sort of cognition ; because a careful analysis of the psychological Impossibility
of Intuition processes seems to show that by virtue of the by ordinary
minds. frame and constitution of our mind, in every cognition which we can have, both the presentative and the representative elements are, as it were, inseparably blended together. Indeed, some philosophers may hold the quite opposite view and affirm that we can perceive objects directly by our senses and that formation of the percept requires no help of repre. sentation. But, surely, we can meet them in the language of Kant by saying that mere sensa tions, unalloyed with any reactionary and representative processes, are as good as nothing, because they are no better than manifold of senses quite undifferentiated and homogeneous in character. But this, though an im
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