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[from 'Rationality and Logic' by Robert Hanna, in 12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition ]

Full Idea

There is no reason why intuition should be cognitively analogous not to sense perception but instead to either memory, imagination, or conceptual understanding.

Gist of Idea

Intuition is more like memory, imagination or understanding, than like perception

Source

Robert Hanna (Rationality and Logic [2006], 6.5)

Book Reference

Hanna,Robert: 'Rationality and Logic' [MIT 2006], p.186


A Reaction

It is Russell's spotting the analogy with memory that made me come to believe that a priori knowledge is possible, as long as we accept it as being fallible. [Hanna has a good discussion of intuition; he votes for the imagination analogy]