("Actually I'm highly logical, which allows me to look past extraneous detail. And perceive clearly that which others overlook," she corrected in Deathly Hallows).
But you have to be able to perceive clearly that this moment in time does not define your career, does not define you.
Such a distinction is recognized by our inability to form a clear and distinct idea of the substance if we exclude from it the attribute in question, or, alternatively, by our inability to perceive clearly the idea of one of the two attributes if we separate it from the other" (Principles, I, 63, CSM, I p. 214 AT 30).
The Fourth Meditation tells us that error is avoidable, that we err not as as a result of the way that we are constructed but as a result of our mis-use of one of the faculties that God has provided us, and that to avoid error we must refrain from affirming what we do not perceive clearly and distinctly.
Of course, none of this means individual consumers are saving money in ways that they perceive clearly -- or that they particularly like.
Returning to those works, I perceive more clearly that the future it let me cheerfully inhabit was in fact a zone of grim unease.
He tentatively formulates the following candidate for a criterion of truth: "I now seem [videor] to be able to lay it down as a general rule that whatever I perceive very clearly and distinctly is true" (Med. 3, AT 7 35).
At the beginning of the Third Meditation, Descartes declares "I now seem to be able to lay it down as a general rule that whatever I perceive very clearly and distinctly is true" (7 35).
In any event, by extension, xuan gains a richer meaning connoting what is "hidden and far," i.e., that which cannot be perceived clearly and thus escapes understanding.
Descartes's argument to show that his knowledge extends beyond his own existence depends upon the claim that whatever he perceives "clearly and distinctly" is true.
