*4. Philos. The [[faculty]] of primary [[truth]]s; ‘the complement of those [[cognition]]s or convictions which we receive from [[nature]]; which all men therefore possess in common; and by which they test the [[truth]] of [[knowledge]], and the [[morality]] of [[action]]s’ (Hamilton Reid's Wks. II. 756). | *4. Philos. The [[faculty]] of primary [[truth]]s; ‘the complement of those [[cognition]]s or convictions which we receive from [[nature]]; which all men therefore possess in common; and by which they test the [[truth]] of [[knowledge]], and the [[morality]] of [[action]]s’ (Hamilton Reid's Wks. II. 756). |