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Intuition based

שו”תCategory: philosophyIntuition based
asked 12 months ago

I wanted to ask about intuition.
In your series of lessons on faith, you claimed that the fact that my intuition works in provable cases strengthens my belief in it.
However, you won’t be able to understand logic that says to trust intuition only in cases that can be tested?

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מיכי Staff answered 12 months ago

I didn’t understand the question.

דובר שואלים replied 12 months ago

It is easy to understand that he is asking how one can trust intuition in unscientific – untestable claims.

Because we will never know if the tool is reliable in them.
And so all the evidence you bring, such as our ability to extrapolate from Newton's second law, is not valid there.

מיכי Staff replied 12 months ago

I understood that, I just didn't understand what the question was. I explained it myself and he quoted it. The fact that our intuition succeeds in places where it can be tested indicates that the ability known as intuition is not a shot in the dark but a reliable cognitive ability. Hence, it should be taken seriously even in places where it cannot be tested. This is how science works. After I have a theory that has been tested, I build on it for cases that have not been tested.
What is not clear here?

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