LessonsDemonstration and the Six Kinds of Certain PremisesQuiz

Discursive reasoning may involve deliberate searching, selecting, and arranging known propositions. In ḥads, the principles and their bearing on the answer are apprehended with unusual immediacy.

Speed alone is not a guarantee of truth. A person can reach a false conclusion quickly. The status of an allegedly certain intuition still depends on a sound connection between principles and conclusion.

The source also allows for differences among thinkers: what one person apprehends at once may require an explicit chain of thought for another.

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A precise distinction between intuition and thought

Demonstration and the Six Kinds of Certain Premises

Discursive reasoning may involve deliberate searching, selecting, and arranging known propositions. In ḥads, the principles and their bearing on the answer are apprehended with unusual immediacy.

Speed alone is not a guarantee of truth. A person can reach a false conclusion quickly. The status of an allegedly certain intuition still depends on a sound connection between principles and conclusion.

The source also allows for differences among thinkers: what one person apprehends at once may require an explicit chain of thought for another.