Saturday, October 17, 2009

I do not know. It is something that I can not explain, like, like, like those things. You know, do you?





Today I was talking with one friend about our Theory of Knowledge presentation. She was telling me that, apparently, the IB was thinking to consider Intuition as another way of knowledge. How can that be possible? How can you explain that you know something trough intuition? Can you say, for instance, I just felt it? The problem with saying that is that you would be even able to skip the responsibility of your actions because it was something that you just felt that doing it. Besides, saying that you know something through intuition it might imply that there is something metaphysical or, at least, beyond to what we can know just by experience . For example, if we learn something through sense perception it is because the way in which our senses reacted with an external element or in the case of language it can be because we learned it and it helped us to understand and to perceive reality from this point. For the fact that language is imposed, in a certain extent, we can justify and argue how and why we know or we understand something trough it. How can we know what a person knows trough intuition? It is something that is based on him/her, however we can find the same problem with the rest ways of knowing. So what would make intuition different knowledge, language, reason or sense perception? For example, Kant said that we structure our minds according to time and space which are part of our intuition. He said that those basic concepts help us in the understanding of other things. He also said that these things turn as things in themselves once we had experience them. In this case, intuition does not constitute our knowledge but just the initial part of it. Therefore, can we say that we KNOW something trough intuition rather than its base as being aware of its existence?

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