Hilary Kornblith Quotes About Intuition

Quotes about: Intuition

• What I hankered for was an account of knowledge which would do far more than get our intuitions about cases right; I wanted a kind of account which would somehow be explanatory.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Intuition, Kind, Cases

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• I have made some headway in addressing these questions, however, and succeeded in explaining how it is that the category of knowledge might play an important role in empirical theories. To the extent that talk of knowledge can be shown to play an explanatory role in such theories, the analogy I wish to make with paradigm natural kinds such as acids and aluminum starts to make a good deal of sense. This is, of course, connected with the issue of the role of intuitions in philosophy.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Play, Issues

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretical intuitions about these things into reflective equilibrium by way of armchair theorising.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Intuition, Aluminum, Way

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Views, Intuition, Roles

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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