There is no single phaenomenon, even the most simple, which can be accounted for from the qualities of the objects, as they appear to us; or which we coued foresee without the help of our memory and experience.
It appears, therefore, that of these seven philosophical relations, there remain only four, which depending solely upon ideas, can be the objects of knowledge and certainty.

These four are RESEMBLANCE, CONTRARIETY, DEGREES IN QUALITY, and PROPORTIONS IN QUANTITY OR NUMBER.
Three of these relations are discoverable at first sight, and fall more properly under the province of intuition than demonstration.

When any objects resemble each other, the resemblance will at first strike the eye, or rather the mind; and seldom requires a second examination.

The case is the same with contrariety, and with the degrees of any quality.
No one can once doubt but existence and non-existence destroy each other, and are perfectly incompatible and contrary.

And though it be impossible to judge exactly of the degrees of any quality, such as colour, taste, heat, cold, when the difference betwixt them is very small: yet it is easy to decide, that any of them is superior or inferior to another, when their difference is considerable.