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Often appears with: reason and the intellect · doubt, skepticism, and certainty · true knowledge possibility · sources of error · skepticism · providence and knowledge · logic and metaphysics · language, naming, and meaning · intelligence vs will · general ideas of extension · general ideas of colour · first principles of human knowledge
Usually: skepticism (2) · argument (1) · reflection (1) · crisis of belief (1) · exhortation (1)
Hegel explains intelligence’s theoretical work as cognition, criticizes treating mind as separable faculties or external impressions, and insists cognition’s possibility and actuality are identical.
certitude or the faith of intelligence in its capability of rational knowledge, and in the possibility of being able to appropriate the reason, which it and the content virtually is. The distinction of Intelligence from Will is often incorrectly taken to mean that each has a fixed and separate existence of its own, as if volition could be without intelligence, or the activity of intelligence could be without will. T…
Berkeley explains how philosophers say abstraction works, giving examples of separating extension, colour, and motion, and then forming generalized ideas like extension-in-general or colour-in-general.
from any darkness and intricacy in the objects, or natural defect in the understanding, so much as from false Principles which have been insisted on, and might have been avoided. 5. How difficult and discouraging soever this attempt may seem, when I consider how many great and extraordinary men have gone before me in the like designs, yet I am not without some hopes--upon the consideration that the largest views are…