Is intuition a legitimate sense?
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That doesn't stop us from doing and tinking, it is just that the question here addressed is that of intuition, and intuition lies beneath language/knowledge claims, beyond them.
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We can at least make some educated guesses. Intuition is “felt” and “talked about”. If we’re talking something that isn’t “felt” or “talked” about then ... why bother pretending there is anything to talk about?
We can infer, and we’re kind of in the habit of doing so meaningfully or not. That is human.
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As to pretending there is anything to talk about, I rather like this. Is there any kind of discussion that is not "pretending" in its nature? This can be asked a different way: Is there anything that a person do to get beyond the mere pragmatics of the language we use to talk about the world?
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What you call “intuition” I don’t. Let’s leave it at that.
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When we define senses as inputs from the nervous system to the brain, then anything the brain does with those inputs is not a sense, as such.
Therefore intuition in the widest possible definition or the narrowest, is not a legitimate sense.
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So you are saying that intuition is defined as of the brain and is therefore not a sense of any kind. Puzzling: is any sense at all therefore a sense of any kind, given that no sense is ever brought before consciousness as independent of what the brain does (can't imagine what that would even be)? And why talk about sense as what an intuition is? What is intuited is simply what is apprehended immediately, spontaneously without any further reduction to what is really is. Most philosophers lately dismiss such a thing because all knowledge is seen as complex. There are no simples, no "innocent eye". I agree with this, but I also think that since an apprehension of any kind in the world is grounded in an "unknown territory" (Husserl) then all discursive accounts fail to show how complexity stands up. There is "something" about my seeing this cup on the table that registers both as incontrovertible and direct in its apprehension: in intuition is acknowledged inside the complexity. This latter is intuition. And as to cognition itself, apriority can only be intuited.Thomas Hobbes;
It's simple enough.
When we define senses as inputs from the nervous system to the brain, then anything the brain does with those inputs is not a sense, as such.
Therefore intuition in the widest possible definition or the narrowest, is not a legitimate sense.
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Also note that introspection qua inner perception of one's mind is different from interoception (or proprioception) qua inner perception of one's body, the latter of which can properly be regarded as a form of sensory perception (with "interoception" defined as "the sense of the physiological condition of the body").
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