Integration.
(Denomination.)
15. SUMMARY.
(1) Knowing is a broader term than thinking as the former equals the latter plus intuition.
(2) Intuitive knowledge is that which comes to the mind immediately by direct observation.
Although intuitive knowledge comes to the mind without thought, yet such knowledge is essential to all thinking. Intuitive knowledge is the foundation upon which the thinking mind builds.
(3) Thinking is the deliberative process of affirming and denying connections. Thinking is a “thickening process,” the smaller units being pressed together to make a larger. Thinking is chiefly a matter of reducing plurality to unity.
(4) A notion is any product of the knowing mind.
An individual notion is the notion of one thing.
A general notion is a notion of a class of things.