Intuitions Quotes
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Reason is intuition's servant.
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Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.
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All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
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Philosophers do need to have intuitions of various specific sorts: ethical, metaphysical, etc., depending on their targeted subject matter. And they must make intuition reports, as they record the contents of their intuitions. But they need not go into whether an intuition has been enjoyed.
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I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.
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Our first intuitions are the true ones.
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The concept of intuition is more often used in philosophical theorizing than is the concept of observation in scientific theorizing (proportionately). One reason is that there is (proportionately) more ostensible conflict of philosophical intuitions than there is ostensible conflict of scientific observations. So much for the use of a concept of intuition in philosophical theorizing.
