Notas Para Tok

INTUITION
-not quite an emotion but definitively a feeling
-matter of feeling than of thinking
-aha moment of insight, when your knowledgebulb links
-all knowledge is based on intuition (in abstractsense)
-knowledge gained through perception and reason ultimately depend on intuition
-THREE TYPES OF INTUITION: Core intuitions (most fundamental, fundamental belief about the existence things weintuitively think are true)
Subject-specific intuitions (intuitions in various areas of knowledge, intuitions in the AOKs)
Social intuitions (intuitions about other people, the ‘vibe’ we sense aboutsomeone)
Core intuitions
-Reason: if asked to justify they are intuitively obvious, but sometimes just is…(Why game)
-Perception: can deceive us
-intuition takes over in both reason and perception andhelps us determine the validity of information we are acquiring
-knowledge claims are ultimately based on intuitions → the Why? Game
-romanticism: emphasis on the importance of the emotions for makingsense of the world
-core intuition=poetically summarized in Pascal’s famous observation: “The hearth has its reason of which reason knows nothing” or in Keats’ “Axiom in philosophy are not axiomsuntil they are proved upon our pulses”
-many if not all fundamental beliefs seem to be based on intuition, romanticism may have something to be said for it
-intuition is an important source of knowledgeOBJECTION: different people have conflicting intuitions
-what is obvious to me may not be obvious to others
OBJECTION Qs 1) If something is intuitively obvious, must everyone agree about it? (Is thereanything that everyone agrees about?)
2) Could you be wrong in thinking that something is intuitively obvious? (Might you one day come to see that what you now think is intuitivelyobvious is in fact a deeply rooted prejudice?)
3) Whose intuitions should you trust? Are some people’s intuitions better than others?
Subject-specific Intuitions
-intuitions should be...