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Date: 1641
"Now if we are to become aware of something, it is necessary for the thing to act on the cognitive faculty by transmitting its semblance to the faculty or by informing the faculty with its semblance. Hence it seems clear that the faculty itself, not being outside itself, cannot transmit a semblan...
preview | full record— Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655)
Date: w. 1628, published in 1684, 1701
"We can best learn how mental intuition is to be employed by comparing it with ordinary vision."
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