Using the example "7 + 8 = 15," Whewell claimed that "we refer to our conceptions of seven, of eight, and of addition, and as soon as we possess the conceptions distinctly, we see that the sum must be 15".
The more distinctly we hear our inner voice, the more powerfully we know who we are and why we're here.
One is in Second Replies, in which Descartes says that a person with jaundice perceives snow "just as clearly and distinctly as we do when we see it as white" (ibid).
When we hold a self-evident truth, our wills are compelled by the clarity and distinctness of the idea: we "see" the truth so clearly and distinctly that we cannot doubt it; that is, we cannot but assent to it.
"We could feel it as distinctly as we could smell the rot along the gutters".
Arnauld quotes Descartes' Principles of Philosophy, Part I, #68 in support of his account: "We know pain, color and the other sensations clearly and distinctly when we consider them simply as thoughts, but when we would judge that color, pain, etc., are things which subsist outside our thought, we do not conceive in any way what that color, that pain, etc., is" (Quoted by Arnauld in Ideas, 132).
Kerry told me what it was like to stand on the threshold of the prison cell with McCain: "I remember a kind of silence, and I remember distinctly that we were alone..
He said that it was "distinctly possible we're headed into a period of the worst economic performance since the stagflation of the late 1970s and recessions of the early 1980s".
The Ethical Culture space, one of the society's temporary homes while Alice Tully Hall is being renovated, may not be the best place to hear the double bass distinctly, but we got the idea.
Kerry told me what it was like to stand on the threshold of the prison cell with McCain: "I remember a kind of silence, and I remember distinctly that we were alone...
She asked herself questions that most black Americans curious about their African ancestry have at one time asked themselves: "What does it mean to be African, and what are the things that make us distinctly who we are?" What she discovered was that she shared a kinship, as she put it, "a kind of identification with all parts of the continent".
