Aquinas held that angels are intellectual beings because they know all things, while men are merely rational beings because they know little and therefore must figure things out. 

Descartes and Locke differentiate between intuition and reason by arguing that intuition can be believed without demonstration while reason requires that we demonstrate every step of our thinking. 

Since each person must reason out each answer on his own to really use reason, the fact that others have outlined their thinking at every step makes reason easier to follow and to expand upon than intuition. 

Also, the argument goes, reason can be used to analyze and test intuition, while the opposite is seldom true. 

The Bible discounted this view...

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