 As noted above (3.2.3), Spinoza classifies intuition, alongside reason, as intellectual rather than imaginative cognition. As such, intuition is “necessarily true” (E2p41); allows us to “distinguish the true from the false” (E2p42); is “the same in all men” (E2p18s); and is cognition of things “through their first causes” (E2p18s). Yet intuition also clearly exceeds reason as an epistemic achievement in Spinoza’s eyes: it is intuition and not reason that he describes as “the greatest virtue of the mind” (E5p25) and the “greatest human perfection” (E5p27d), capable of affecting the mind with a unique degree of force (E5p36s). Intuition is also the only cognition on which Spinoza bestows the traditional honorific of “scientia” (D. Garrett 2018:ch.7).