Project Gutenberg #5827
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
1912Russell's concise introduction to philosophy's central questions, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg HTML.
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Chapter XI. ON INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE Central question What is intuitive knowledge, and when can it be trusted? Main argument Russell describes intuitive knowledge as the kind of immediate awareness that some...
self-evidence, is really an infallible guarantee of truth, while the other, which corresponds to all the other degrees, does not give an infallible guarantee, but only a greater or less presumption. This, however, is only a suggestion, which we cannot as yet develop further. After we have dealt with the nature of truth, we shall return to the subject of self-evidence, in connexion with the distinction between knowledge and error.