The second degree of knowledge obtains when "the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of... ideas, but not immediately".
It begins to seem we are always travelling in the same direction, towards an unremitting physicality in which the mind perceives an irresistible provocation.
As Locke uses the term, a "simple idea" is anything that is an "immediate object of perception" (i.e., an object as it is perceived by the mind) or anything that the mind "perceives in itself" through reflection.
The first is what he calls "intuitive knowledge," in which the mind "perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other".
Malebranche's argument that God alone can produce effects relies on the assumption that "a true cause … is one such that the mind perceives a necessary connection [liaison nécessaire] between it and its effects" (Malebranche 1958 84, 2 316).
Norton said: "In the beginning, Anonymous was just about self-amusement, the "lulz," but somehow, over the course of the past few years, it grew up to become a sort of self-appointed immune system for the internet, striking back at anyone the hive mind perceived as an enemy of freedom, online or offline".
Representationism, also called Representationalism, philosophical theory of knowledge based on the assertion that the mind perceives only mental images (representations) of material objects outside the mind, not the objects themselves.
Or you could head to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a conversation between the intellectual omnivore Dr. Oliver Sacks and the science commentator Robert Krulwich on the relationship between what the eye sees and what the mind perceives.
While the verisimilitude of Vermeer and the bizarre dreamscapes of Salvador Dali may seem to have little in common, they are united by an intense focus on how the mind perceives, and misperceives, what is right before its eyes.
In this way, the mind perceives, more or less obscurely, what is taking place in its body.
