INTUITION

Charles François (2004). INTUITION, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1770.

Collection	International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year	2004
Vol. (num.)	2(1)
ID	◀ 1770 ▶
Object type	Epistemology, ontology or semantics

“A proposal solution to a problem without using a logical process” (St. KRIPPNER — pers. comm.).

According to H. POINCARÉ: “It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover” (1938)

Intuition is generally a “short cut”, based on the formerly acquired mental algorithms — which may be mere beliefs — and produces a proposal by analogy often unconscious. Of course, the validity and usefulness of the proposal must be confirmed by making a critical appraisal preferably before and, in the last resort, after any practical experiment.

R. RODRIGUEZ DELGADO wrote:“Abstract intuition has not only perceptive aspects, but is also a qualitative synthesis of conceptual and affective experiences.

Space, time , duration, mobility, immobility, etc…can be experienced from within or can be formulated in definitions. In the first case, they are ineffable intuitions, in the second, communicable concepts “…and ”Intuitions, as perceptions , are absolutely true as individual experiences, and cannot be rationally refuted, but they cannot pretend to be gnoseological truths or forms of the external reality . Reason can, of course, effect some comprehension of their mechanism and by this means intuition, perception and concept can be integrated, instead of remaining in frequent opposition“(1956)

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