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Why I'm not an Atheist and believe in what I believe.
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RE: Why I'm not an Atheist and believe in what I believe.
(June 6, 2012 at 5:36 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Yes some intuitions can be wrong, but it doesn't mean we cannot know anything intuitively.

You're going to have to pin down what you mean by "intuition" and "know(ledge)" first.

In epistemology, the Platonic view is that knowledge is justified, true belief. However, there is much disagreement as to what knowledge actually is.

Intuition can be viewed as the ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason, or as a priori knowledge/belief - and the definition is far from settled.

I'm not convinced that intuitive knowledge meets the Platonic criteria demanded of knowledge by epistemology, at least not universally. Without an agreement to what those two terms mean, any kind of statement regarding the possibility of intuitive knowledge is necessarily vague.
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RE: Why I'm not an Atheist and believe in what I believe. - by Jackalope - June 6, 2012 at 6:27 pm

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