Intuition as Knowing

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This paper refers to assigned popular articles (Psychology Today, 2002/1993) discussing the fundamental gap between rationality and science, in studies of learning and knowing, and intuition. David Cappon writes as a psychiatrist and professor of psychology who still attempts to measure intuition or analyze it as a phenomenon. The paper discusses how the same problem appears in Myers who accepts the differences of intuitive and cognitive thought, reminding of the need for both processes and broader ideas of perception and knowing, at large.

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"David Cappon and David Myers agree that that the process of intuition involves acquiring knowing. Cappon's discussion of intuition is more inclined to distinguish it from logical thinking, though seeing that intuition offer insights. Myers' article seems more satisfying in that the author is directly aware of both forms of learning and knowing. Cappon explains why intuition has been so questioned, as a result of a narrowing of how we define intelligence and knowledge due to a rationalist heritage that is based in science and concepts of provability. "

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