Merle, you are a Platonist.
Knowledge is a funny business.
Intuition is (imperfect) perception (until it is perfected). Knowledge is
knowledge.
But what of the knowledge of two-plus-two-equals-four? That is analytic. It
took no learning. It is entirely "trivial", as my best Mathematician friends
say knowingly, and concerns not at all the world. It's not based on
observation at all! Were we born with it? You decide! Plato says, "Yes".
From conditioning elsewhere, before birth. What a guy! But he was not a solo
operator: he ranged around in his town and talked with everybody, even though
Socrates was his main man.
--Joe
Ps I think we're NOT "born knowing". But there is something folks call
"instinct". We do not know what that is. I say it's just a name we apply to
behavior that arises "we don't know how". It's just our way of saying we don't
*KNOW* how or why some animals or people behave as they do. It's a cover for
our ignorance, and a fiction, too, which is even worse.
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> well how else to we know stuff..how else does intuition behave..if we are not
> born knowing?...merle
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