PEIRCE’S FIRST FOOTNOTE TO “Questions Concerning Certain Faculties…”, Ep P. 11 -x- [EP page 11] The word “intuitus” first occurs as a term in St. Anselm’s MONOLOGIUM. He wished to distinguish between our knowledge of God and our knowledge of finite things (and in the next world, of God, also); and thinking of the saying of St. Paul , Videmus nunc per speculum in ænigmate: tunc autem facie ad faciem, he called the former “speculation” and the later “intuition”. This use of “speculation” did not take root because that word [page 12] already had another exact and widely different meaning. In the middle ages, the term “intuitive cognition” had two principle senses, 1st, as opposed to abstractive cognition it meant the knowledge of present as present, and this is its meaning in Anselm; but 2nd, as no intuitive cognition was allowed to be determined by a previous cognition, it came to be used as the opposite of discursive cognition (see Scotus, IN SENTENTIUS, lib. 2, dist. 3, qu. 9), and this is nearly the sense in which I employ it. This is also nearly the sense in which Kant uses it, the former distinction being expressed by his “sensuous” and “non-sensuous”. (See WERKE, herausg. Rosenkrantz, Thl 2, S. 713, 31, 41, 100, u. s. w.) An enumeration of six meanings of intuition may be found in Hamilton’d REID, P. 759.
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