from Lawrence, SUNDAY PhiloMadrid meeting at 6:30pm: Intuition

Dear Friends,

This Sunday we are discussing: intuition.

We have already discussed this topic in March 2009 and again as
"Intuition or reasoning" in January 2011 and you can find my essay here:
http://philomadrid.blogspot.com.es/2011/01/from-lawrence-pub-philosophy-group_13.html

There is no doubt that when we have an intuition of something we have
that intuition on something we are engaged in. We can be engaged about
something in deep philosophical thought, or technical knowledge. Or we
can be engaged about something in passing, for example an event that
attracts our attention in the news.

But is intuition the same as knowledge or true belief? Even knowledge
and true belief are not exactly the same: a true belief is something
that needs to be "objectively" confirmed. Knowledge is something that is
objectively confirmed. In other words we know because what it is we know
has been established by our methodologies of acquiring knowledge.

Intuitions do not even have the status of beliefs: I mean we are
prepared to fight and defend our beliefs, but are we prepared to fight
for our intuitions? And yet sometimes we put a lot of trust in our
intuition. Sometimes even more than trust, we can change our beliefs or
life on an intuition.

Sometimes our intuitions let us down; or simply do not explain events or
the future 100%. But why do we sometimes get intuitions right and
sometimes not 100% spot on? Maybe the best way to answer this question
is to investigate the knowledge and experience of the person.

And a second question is then how do we go from conscious experience and
knowledge to unconscious assessment of a situation?

One issue we can discuss is the scope of intuitions in our daily life:
why do we need intuition when we can have beliefs or even knowledge.

Best Lawrence

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from Lawrence, SUNDAY PhiloMadrid meeting at 6:30pm: Intuition

from Lawrence, Pub Philosophy Group, Sunday meeting: Intuition

Dear friends,

This Sunday we are discussing Intuition. I have only managed to write a few ideas on the subject which I hope you will appreciate. One day I hope to be able to write a full essay.

In the meantime I remind you that on Thursday Ignacio and a few of our friends are at Moore’s. Check their website:

Every Thursday, from 19:30 to 21h, at Moore’s Irish Pub, c/ Barceló 1 (metro Tribunal).

http://sites.google.com/site/tertuliainenglishmadrid/



Take care and see you Sunday


Lawrence


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Intuition,

The problem with a concept like intuition is that it is intuition when we get it right but a mistake when we get it wrong. So what is the difference between intuition and a lucky guess?

And although intuition is subjective, we still accept it as a reasonable form of thinking, specifically thinking about the future and future events. By future events I mean something like expecting what a given state of affairs will be like.

Furthermore, although we accept that some people might be more intuitive in general or about some specific things, we also recognise that everyone can have intuition to some extent or other.

A question we can ask ourselves about intuition is whether it is a conscious or subconscious process? Are we more intuitive, i.e. accurate about the future, when we consider issues consciously or subconsciously? These are more psychological and maybe neurological questions than philosophical questions.

A philosophical question would be for example, is intuition a probabilistic process or a deductive process? But the point is not whether we are right or wrong about some future event. But rather, if we are right about some future event, and we’ll know when that event takes place and not before, is this intuition based on probabilistic reasoning or deductive reasoning? If you don’t like probabilistic use inductive reasoning.

If our reasoning is probabilistic, then we are all familiar with the is-ought issues of induction. But if intuition is deductive, where, I ask you, did the future fact come from given that when we did the deduction there couldn’t have been any facts about the future? Or to put it in another way, how can we deduce something about the future if it is not in the premises?

Maybe, intuition has nothing to do about the future but more to do about our thinking process. maybe a process between guessing and knowing. At least that my intuition about intuition.

Take care

Lawrence



from Lawrence, Pub Philosophy Group, Sunday meeting: Intuition