Intuition in reasoning. Locke's influence on ^18th-century English logic textbooks

Although he always expressed the strongest reservations about logic, Locke very early on attracted the attention of logicians of his time and was even at the starting point of a tradition of English logicians who, in the ^18th century, explicitly used the theory of knowledge proposed in the fourth book of theEssay Concerning Human Understanding to reform logic textbooks in English universities (let's cite Isaac Watts and his Logick; or the Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth of 1725, William Duncan and his Elements of Logick of 1748, the first Encyclopaedia Britannica of 1768-71, Edward Bentham and hisIntroduction to Logick: Scholastick and Rational of 1773, Thomas Reid in A Brief Account on Aristotle's Logic). We would like to present this little-known tradition and show, more specifically, the decisive role played by the Lockean concept ofintuition, particularly in the theory of scientific judgment proposed by some of these authors.