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The cognitive revolution of the past thirty years provides a different perspective on our lives, one that emphasizes the relative importance of emotion over pure reason, social connections over individual choice, moral intuition over abstract logic, perceptiveness over I. Q
And yet I kept finding myself distracted by misgivings about its version of femininity, which celebrates intuition over logic, emotional intelligence over success, and offers little that hasn't already been said in Pride and Prejudice – or, for that matter, Legally Blonde.
Caught in the paradox between peace and justice we might end up emphasizing one kind of intuition over the other after war.
For Spinoza, as for Descartes, the metaphysical commitment to substance underwrote a rationalist epistemology that strongly privileges reason and intuition over sensation and imagination.
"The thing that was most surprising to me was how much even professional engineers and scientists will not only rely on their intuition, but accept their intuition over a straightforward rigorous analysis, and real world proof".
On this view, to be a rationalist requires at least one of the following: (1) a privileging of reason and intuition over sensation and experience, (2) regarding all or most ideas as innate rather than adventitious, (3) an emphasis on certain rather than merely probable knowledge as the goal of enquiry.
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Romantics may err in the other direction when their "artistic preferences and intuition" take over.
In those moments intuition took over and saved me from failure.
I had to let my own intuition take over, my own sense of connection with my children.
And what I can say, the best thing what you can do is just stop fu**ing around and do something because than your intuition takes over, and you won't have time to react.
The example of anorexia above shows that concerns about the empirical validity of theories and tests of decisional capacity are not always simply based on a clash of intuitions over paradigm cases.
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