PHIL 262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Primitive Notion
30 Aug 2018
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Distinct notion a notion connected with marks and tests sufficient to distinguish a thing from all other similar bodies. Distinct knowledge of an indefinable notion, since it is primitive, or its own mark, that is, since it is irresolvable and is understood only through itself and therefore lacks requisite. Blind or symbolic thinking is found both in algebra and in arithmetic and, indeed, almost everywhere. Intuitive knowledge when we can consider all of its components notions at once. There is no knowledge of a distinct primitive notion except intuitive, just as our thinking about composites is for the most part symbolic. We do not perceive ideas of even those things we know distinctly unless we use intuitive knowledge. We often mistakenly believe that we have ideas of things in mind when we mistakenly suppose that we have already explained some of the terms we use.
