ABSTRACT
How should we assess Locke's intuitionism, and the analogy of 'seeing' or 'perceiving' necessary connections? From the general discussion of knowledge in chapter 15, above, it should already be clear that what is chiefly at issue is the 'perspicuity' of necessary knowledge. Is there a subjective condition of the apprehension of necessary truth at least partly analogous to sensation, a perspicuous 'appearance' of necessity which may in particular cases be either accepted or rejected, but which is in general veridical and which naturally and normally issues in uninferred belief?
