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Intuition
What is Intuition?
According to Kahneman (2012) intuition refers to the thinking system [called the System 1] in which this thinking operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control. With intuition, the knowledge is stored in memory and accessed without intention and without effort (pp.20-22).
Some different sources of information for an understanding of intuition are collected as follows:
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About Intuition
Albert Einstein once noted “intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience”.
On the contrary: intuitive decisions are often a product of previous intense and/or extensive explicit thinking. Such decisions may appear subjectively fast and effortless because they are made on the basis of recognition.
The ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning: A thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning
The word intuition is derived from the Latin intueor – to see;
this “power of intuition” and our ability to “think without thinking”, sometimes suggesting we should rely more heavily on intuition than deliberative (slow) or “rational” thought processes.
‘…most of the time we act intuitively – that is, without knowing why we do things we do.’
Intuition is a process that gives us the ability to know something directly without analytic reasoning, bridging the gap between the conscious and nonconscious parts of our mind, and also between instinct and reason.
Intuition, a phenomenon of the mind, describes the ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason.
Unconscious thought process that produces rapid, uninferred knowledge or solution. Though it is not analytic in the sense that it does not deliberately look for cause-and-effect (causal) relationships, intuition is not mere guesswork. Instead, it draws on previously acquired experiences and information and directly apprehends a totality. Intuition can be visionary or delusionary, uncannily correct or horrendously wrong in its conclusions.
Intuitions as Beliefs-Some philosophers equate intuitions with beliefs or with some kind of belief. Our ‘intuitions’ are simply opinions.
Intuitions as Dispositions to Believe-Peter van Inwagen claims that intuitions might be in some cases, the tendencies that make certain beliefs attractive to us, that ‘move’ us in the direction of accepting certain propositions without taking us all the way to acceptance.
Intuitions as Sui Generis States-an intuition is a sui generis occurrent propositional attitude, variously characterized as one in which a proposition occurrently seems true (Bealer 1998, 2002; Pust 2000; Huemer 2001, 2005), in which a proposition is presented to the subject as true (Chudnoff 2011a), or which pushes the subject to believe a proposition (Koksvik 2011)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuition/ :
Bealer, G., 1998, “Intuition and the Autonomy of Philosophy,” in DePaul and Ramsey 1998. / 2002, “Modal Epistemology and the Rationalist Renaissance,” in Conceivability and Possibility, T. Gendler and J. Hawthorne (eds.), New York: Oxford University Press.
Chudnoff, E., 2011a, “What Intuitions are Like,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 82: 625–654.
Koksvik, O., 2011, Intuition, Ph.D. Thesis, Australian National University [preprint available from the author].
http://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/intuition.htm
"Intuitionism" is a term used in the philosophy of mathematics.
"intuitive" implies something known.
According to University of Chicago(2004), Intuition in the broadest of terms means "immediate apprehension. The "Etymology of "intuition":
*The first use of the word intuition was found in a text at the end of the 15th century. Until the 17th-century intuition meant "mentally looking at"; "the act of regarding, examining, or inspecting"; "a view, regard, or consideration of something", all of which are now obsolete meanings.
*In 17th-century scholastic philosophers started to use the word in its modern meaning, as in the following context: "the spiritual perception or immediate knowledge, ascribed to angelic and spiritual beings, with whom vision and knowledge are identical."
*More vernacular uses of "intuition" are:
-Intuition as a peculiar property of genius.
-Intuition is also sometimes popularly used to mean the mysterious "sixth sense".
-an unjustifiable belief or a hunch
*In modern philosophy we find three different meanings of intuition:
An immediate apprehension of an object by the mind without the intervention of any reasoning.
-Immediate apprehension by intellect alone.
-Immediate apprehension by senses
The intuitive mode of thinking – Three features:
The process is dominated by your subconscious mind, even if you use your conscious mind to formulate or rationalise the final results.
The information is processed in parallel rather than sequentially. Instead of going through a logical sequence of thoughts one by one, you see the situation more as a whole, with different fragments emerging in parallel.
You are more connected with your emotions. For example, it may occur to you that an option you consider does not feel right, even though there is no clear logic to prove that.
Thinking System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control…It has learnt associations between ideas…The knowledge is stored in memory and accessed without intention and without effort.(pp.20-22)
http://www.time-management-guide.com/intuition-decision-making.html
Daniel Kahneman (2012). Thinking, Fast and Slow. Great Britain. Penguin Random House UK
Relevant links:- Intuitive Thinking - Daniel Kahneman Interview- Successes and Failures of Intuitionhttp://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people7/Kahneman/kahneman-con5.html
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