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INTUITIVE

Volume 12 · 80 words · 1842 Edition

vidence is that which results from intuition. Dr Campbell distinguishes different sorts of intuitive evidence; one resulting purely from intellect, another kind arising from consciousness, and a third sort from that faculty called common sense, which this ingenious writer contends to be a distinct original source of knowledge; but others refer its supposed office to be intuitive power of the understanding.

INUNDATION, a sudden overflowing of the dry land by the waters of the ocean, rivers, lakes, springs, or rains.