(June 6, 2012 at 6:29 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(June 6, 2012 at 6:27 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: 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.
haha, this is would go way off topic though don't you think? I don't know how to define knowledge...maybe it's like religion, can't be defined but we all know what it means?
Perhaps, but consider this: If you don't know what knowledge is (i.e. you cannot define it), how can you know that you can know something intuitively? Are you able to articulate to another WHY you consider it knowledge (i.e. can you justify it)?
If you cannot, I think it can be reasonably argued that you in fact, do not know it at all.
