On Aug 30, 10:27 am, Derek Martin <c...@pizzashack.org> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 03:52:36AM -0700, Paul McGuire wrote: > > > It is surprising how many times we > > > think things are "intuitive" when we really mean they are "familiar". > > > Of course, just as I was typing my response, Steve D'Aprano beat me to > > the punch. > > Intuition means "The power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge > or cognition without evident rational thought and inference." Very > naturally, things which behave in a familiar manner are intuitive. > Familiar and intuitive are very closely tied. Correspondingly, when > things look like something familiar, but behave differently, they are > naturally unintuitive.
*You* find something unfamiliar, and by your logic that means it's unintuitive for everyone? Nice logic there, chief. Presumptuous much? Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list