clear and distinct perception

must be true, or God would deserve the name of deceiver.

Recast in definition form from: “For God would have merited the appellation of a deceiver if he had given us this faculty perverted”

is the general rule of truth: whatever is apprehended very clearly and distinctly is true.

Recast in definition form from: “In this first knowledge, doubtless, there is nothing that gives me assurance of its truth except the clear and distinct perception of what I affirm and accordingly it seems to me that I may now take as a general rule, that all that is very clearly and distinctly apprehended (conceived) is true.”

compels assent while it lasts: the mind is so made that it must affirm what it clearly conceives, while it conceives it.

Recast in definition form from: “the nature of my mind is such as to compel me to assert to what I clearly conceive while I so conceive it”

Baruch Spinoza

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

confusion

certainty

intuition

truth

real distinction

evidence

Rene Descartes

10,000 hour rules

5-second rule

commandment

designated hitter rule

display rule

dress code

exclusionary rule

five second rule

game rules

gender norm

golden rule

heuristic

hotel ban

hypodescent

imperative

liquids rule

majority rule

mask mandate

military rule

minority rule

norm

offside

peak-end rule

prohibition

regulation

rule of 150

rule of experts

rule of formation

rule of hypo-descent

rule of the dead

rules of the game

strike zone

taboo

Ten Commandments

Thou Shalt Not Kill

triple word score

unwritten rule

clear and distinct perception, n.Definitions

clear and distinct perception