...particular thing. Intuition. "Intuitive knowledge", says Spinoza is "that kind of knowing which proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain...the adequate knowledge of the essence of things". It is at once immediate and direct and the objects appear as if in a single flash, following from God....

...a disconnected stage reached by a leap or by a mystical process. 'Now this kind of knowing proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain...of God to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things.'1 This quotation seems to equate knowledge of the third with knowledge of the second kind;...

...clue for making sense of intuitive knowledge in Spinoza's epistemology: intuitive knowledge "proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain...attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the |NS: formal] essence of things" (E IIP 4 oS2). 22. In the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect,...

...however, accord to humans some capacity for achieving "knowledge of the third kind", which proceeds "from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God to adequate knowledge of the essence of things." (Ethics, IIp40s2; cf. Vp25-p29) 47. What follows is an...

...knowledge of God's essence with the possibility of achieving the "third kind of knowledge," which "proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God to adequate knowledge of the essences of things" (EIIp40s2). He comments in EIIp47s: since all things...

...show, a third kind of knowledge, which I shall refer to as "intuition." This kind of knowledge proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God to an adequate knowledge of the essence of things. I shall illustrate all these kinds of knowledge by...

...results from having the third kind of knowledge" (VP27), knowledge that "proceeds from an adequate idea of certain attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things (VP25). To have the third kind of knowledge is to understanding things as following from the necessity...

...knowledge, which he calls intuition or scientia intuitiva. 'This kind of cognition,' he explains, 'proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain...to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things' (E 2, 40, Scholium 2). He illustrates that obscure remark with a mathematical example (expanded more...

...follows, which we shall call intuitive knowledge (scientia intuitiva). Now this kind of knowing proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain...to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things. Eternity is the essence of God in so far as this involves necessary existence. Therefore to conceive...

...necessity of a thing and the way it depends on its ultimate, first causes. This kind of knowing proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain...attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the formal essences of things.60 The third kind of knowledge proceeds from an adequate idea of certain...