How did John Duns Scotus distinguish intuitive cognition from abstractive cognition?

Blessed John Duns Scotus distinguished between intuitive and abstractive cognition based on the relationship between the knowledge and the object's existence.1

• Intuitive cognition is defined as an immediate and indubitable awareness of a thing. It provides knowledge specifically of an object that is present and existing, allowing one to know with certainty that the object exists and is the cause of that knowledge.1
• Abstractive cognition is knowledge of a thing that is abstracted from, or logically independent of, the object's actual existence or nonexistence.1

This distinction was a significant contribution to epistemology, as it separated the direct perception of a present reality from the conceptual understanding of a thing regardless of its current state.1