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III. Intuition. So far we have been considering the instruments and processes of knowing this sensuous world. Intuition, with which we now deal, is the process by which we know the super-sensuous world—the world that is beyond senses and thoughts. It is true that the super-sensuous expresses itself in and through the sensuous, and to know the latter in completeness is to know the former, but the process of knowing the two must be different. To know the latter, perception and thought will be fairly sufficient, but to know the super-sensuous, Intuition is required. It is no argument to say that because the super-sensuous expresses itself through the sensuous, the process of knowing the latter (Perception and Thought) will also hold good in the case of the former. For, are we able to know the sensuous world even, in all its fullness, by these processes? Assuredly not. There is an infinite number of facts, things, laws, connections in nature, and even