This was the first attempt at using the method of intuition and reason alone.
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There is another interpretation of the dialectic, as a method of intuition suggested in The Republic.
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The latter s method is what Bergson calls analysis, while the method of intuition belongs to the former.
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His method of intuition can in fact be seen as a response to Immanuel Kant, who believed that we can only know the world as it appears to us, not as it is in itself.