Intuition

rationalist belief. The first of these is the Intuition/Deduction Thesis. This is the idea that a certain propositions in a particular subject in question, X, are knowable only by intuition. This is followed by the idea that propositions not in this category are only knowable when deduced from intuition. Claims in rationalism can vary in levels of controversy with regards to what is derived from one’s intuition. Furthermore, rationalist agreement on the role of intuition is varied. Some…

bring you peace but yourself" was once said by Emerson, the father of transcendentalism. The movie, Men in Black, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, shows transcendentalism. It shows this through the ideas that nature is beautiful, nonconformity, and intuition over reason. A major concept of transcendentalism is connecting with nature. Throughout the movie, multiple people say that the stars are beautiful including an agent in the beginning. These people notice nature and how pretty it is which…

Caveman logic constantly pervades our lives. Humanity believes in anything from supposed coincidences to spiritual healing without a second thought. The logic that our ancestors used has tainted our ways of thinking, and has taken us farther from evolutionary progress. We cannot exclude ourselves from being susceptible to this flawed system of thinking due to its overwhelming presence in today’s world. Caveman logic is not something that I am exempt from, having turned to it for a large portion…

Then I will explain the Doctrine of Double Effect and how accepting the Doctrine of Double Effect along with a previous moral principle that we set into place in the cases of the Trolley and Spare Parts Surgeon can help provide reason for our moral intuitions. Then…

these representations’. The former of these is sensibility whilst the latter is spontaneity of concepts or understanding. Sensibility is intuition that connects the noumenal world to the phenomenal world through our senses. Therefore, sensibility must be empirical. However, ‘Intuitions can never be other than sensible’ (Kant, Watkins and Pluhar, 1999). Intuitions help to form concepts and so the world as we perceive cannot be a priori if we rely on those senses. This initial connection between…

highlights for fulfilling descriptive adequacy is uniformity in regards to intuitions on happiness. He describes an ideal theory to be “relatively uniform—and generate few or no serious counterexamples.” (52) This description is undoubtedly subjective, for what would constitute a serious counterexample? Haybron then attempts to expound on what it means to have descriptive adequacy by stating that it is our “considered intuitions, particularly the strongest and most robust ones, which carry the…

a long time. I started with the video games, which led me to the movies and then some of the books. Being that involved you see it less as intuition and more of skill as Jack Ryan eventually becomes a successful president. However, my understanding has always been that Jack Ryan is essentially the Sherlock Holmes of the CIA, but Sherlock doesn’t use intuition that is Watson that deduces things, Sherlock is the one that uses induction the facts lead him to his conclusion. But it has probably…

did not come from logic or mathematics. It came, as it does for artists, from intuition and inspiration. As he told one friend, "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of imagination has meant more to me than any talent for absorbing absolute knowledge." Elaborating, he added, "All great achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge. I believe in intuition and inspiration.... At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing…

concept of noumenon is non-contradictory as it cannot emphasize sensibility by demonstrating it is the only possible kind of intuition. Sensibility has no ways of reaching noumena, it is purely an analytical concept, and this knowledge is necessary in considering the necessity of the concept of noumena in itself. Sensible intuition cannot be extended to things in intuitions and the rationality in sensible cognition is limited. Cognitions cannot extend their domain to everything that the…

toward a relationship with God. Contrary to the Unitarians, they believed true knowledge about the universe could only come from intuition found in the human mind and nature. Emerson explained Transcendentalists are those who display “ the tendency to respect the intuitions, and to give them [...] all authority over our experience (Emerson).” He found more power in intuition than in experience. This concept comes from German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who maintained humans cannot directly…