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The division between thinking and cognition

ResponseCategory: PhilosophyThe division between thinking and cognition
The priest's angel asked 3 years ago

Hello Rabbi
In his book Truth and Unstable, the rabbi distinguishes between human thinking – which the rationalists have exalted – and which has been proven to be a false source of knowledge of reality, and intuition, which is essential to all empirical research. The rabbi defined intuition as a field that is close to cognition, like sensory cognition, except that it is an immediate cognition that does not pass through the senses. Therefore, unlike rationalistic thinking, which does not teach us about reality, intuition does.
But how do we know what cognitive intuition is and what thinking is? Wasn't Aristotle's idea that the speed of falling objects is according to their weight intuitive in his eyes? Isn't belief in God, which the Rabbi defines as a possible intuition in the first book of the trilogy, similar to the Aristotelian idea?
Thank you very much.

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Michi Staff answered 3 years ago

I did not make such a distinction. What I argued was that thinking that has no source in reality is not trustworthy. Therefore, I argued that the rationalistic (a priori) insights that we trust are based on intuition. There are no two categories to distinguish between. If you trust, it means you have such intuition.
Of course, intuition can be wrong, so it needs to be checked, cross-checked, and changed when necessary.

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