¶ Intuition
Index Entry
Intuition:
“A half a century, even a quarter of a century ago, intuition was almost a naughty word in the world of academic science, in fact in the whole world of philosophers. Pragmatism of the highest kind came in with the Great Depression. Some of the validity of the out-and-out Marxian pragmatism was very convincing to many thinkers in the depths of the Depression. Many of these thinkers thought of intuition as pure romanticism and the antithesis of pragmatism. Therefore the idea that one could get any value out of intuitions was considered as nonsensical as the idea of getting anything of value out of superstitions.”
¶ Citations
- RBF Foreword to Harold Cohen, “A New Learning Environment.” 1971
