About Me

I am a PhD student in Philosophy at Peking University, now staying at Universität zu Köln, Germany. My interests are primarily in Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology and Analytic Phenomenology. Now I am working on my Dissertation: Method, Intentionality, and Knowledge--An essay in analytic phenomenology. --------- I also have substantial interest in Early Modern Philosophy, Political Philosophy and Ethics.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Essential Intuition as Experience and Method

In experience, of course there is some kind of essential intuition.Which amounts to a simple process, prima facie.

I think this is the condition of possibility of a Method making use of this particular ability of the mind.

Hence, the Methodological sense of Essential Intuition, which is a quite complex process and requires quite a lot analytical power.

From a philosophical point of view, when you try to describe the SIMPLE operation of the mind when it apprehends something in general, i.e., a mathematical truth.It seems to be a highly complex thing to do, and the SIMPLE process seems to involve some highly complex operations of mind.And only a highly complex method seems adequate to describe the complex operation, which itself makes use of the original complex operation.

Simple things are never SIMPLE!

The accusation, that this method requires mystic Intuition, is partially due to the confusion between the two senses.

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