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I really wish the "immediacy" aspect were more visibly discussed. It's a great core to the notion of intuition---it also helps separate intuition of a concept f
by tel 11y ago
I really wish the "immediacy" aspect were more visibly discussed. It's a great core to the notion of intuition---it also helps separate intuition of a concept from intuition guiding a search for meaning.
- calibraxis 11y agoAs I understand, it's not immediate. It's just our conscious mind suddenly being alerted to it, which leads to the illusion of immediacy. Probably very little of our thoughts are conscious.
- tel 11y agoIn this sense "immediate" means that the reader "grasps" the evidence in a single step---it is basal, axiomatic [0], or assumed. From a Brouwerian POV certain things are axiomatic (continuity and choice sequences are his examples) and must merely be known implicitly to the observer. [0] This word causes other issues, but the, ha, intuition of it is not so bad