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This does not connect intuition with the irrational, however. Intuition by its nature - inherently - delivers truth. It is 'instantaneous insight' into the truth. Irrationalism by contrast involves - endorses or promotes - intellectual arbitrariness, private whim and wishful thinking, none of which can deliver truth, an essential element in knowledge, other than accidentallyaccidentally.

This does not connect intuition with the irrational, however. Intuition delivers truth. It is 'instantaneous insight' into the truth. Irrationalism by contrast involves - endorses or promotes - intellectual arbitrariness, private whim and wishful thinking, none of which can deliver truth, an essential element in knowledge, other than accidentally.

This does not connect intuition with the irrational, however. Intuition by its nature - inherently - delivers truth. It is 'instantaneous insight' into the truth. Irrationalism by contrast involves - endorses or promotes - intellectual arbitrariness, private whim and wishful thinking, none of which can deliver truth, an essential element in knowledge, other than accidentally.

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You mention intuition, so you want some account, not given so far, of intuition. This term, like empiricism itself, is open to a broad variety of meanings. My own understanding of intuition is that if I know something intuitively, I know it by a direct intellectual awareness not derived from sense experience. It follows that intuition - intuitive knowledge - is not empirical knowledge. Empiricism excludes intuition.

Intuition or intuitive knowledge is not rational knowledge either. Intuition involves 'instantaneous insight' (B. Williams, Descartes, London: Routledge, 2005: 73) not preceded by rational processes.

This does not connect intuition with the sensesirrational, however. Intuition delivers truth. It is 'instantaneous insight' into the truth. Irrationalism by contrast involves - endorses or promotes - intellectual arbitrariness, private whim and wishful thinking, none of which can deliver truth, an essential element in knowledge, other than accidentally.

Whether we actually have any intuitive knowledge as defined I cannot say.

You mention intuition, so you want some account, not given so far of intuition. This term, like empiricism itself, is open to a broad variety of meanings. My own understanding of intuition is that if I know something intuitively, I know it by a direct intellectual awareness not derived from the senses.

You mention intuition, so you want some account, not given so far, of intuition. This term, like empiricism itself, is open to a broad variety of meanings. My own understanding of intuition is that if I know something intuitively, I know it by a direct intellectual awareness not derived from sense experience. It follows that intuition - intuitive knowledge - is not empirical knowledge. Empiricism excludes intuition.

Intuition or intuitive knowledge is not rational knowledge either. Intuition involves 'instantaneous insight' (B. Williams, Descartes, London: Routledge, 2005: 73) not preceded by rational processes.

This does not connect intuition with the irrational, however. Intuition delivers truth. It is 'instantaneous insight' into the truth. Irrationalism by contrast involves - endorses or promotes - intellectual arbitrariness, private whim and wishful thinking, none of which can deliver truth, an essential element in knowledge, other than accidentally.

Whether we actually have any intuitive knowledge as defined I cannot say.

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