{"id":267,"date":"2012-09-03T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skepticblogs.com\/humesapprentice\/?p=267"},"modified":"2012-09-03T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T09:00:12","slug":"developments-in-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2012\/09\/03\/developments-in-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Developments in Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m going to do something different: instead of telling you guys what I think, I want to hear what you think.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The twin towers of knowledge are logic and evidence. I think that intuition, or gut feeling, is a way of knowing things that sits on top of these two towers. As I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticblogs.com\/humesapprentice\/2012\/09\/03\/intuition-skepticism\/\">blogged yesterday<\/a>, intuition is justified inductively. Since intuition is a weak justification for knowledge, and since it derives its validity from evidence and logic, it can never trump either of the two.<\/p>\n<p>The problem I&#8217;ve run into is with philosophical arguments. Often these are justified with logic. However, it is only too easy to make big mistakes with complex logical arguments. Fallacies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onegoodmove.org\/fallacy\/equiv.htm\">equivocation<\/a> can sometimes be very hard to spot, and throughout history such hidden fallacies have been made by a number of people. Fallacious arguments, I&#8217;ve noticed, often have counter-intuitive or absurd implications. On the other hand, intuition can be and often is wrong. So, if someone has a complicated logical argument, how can we be sure that it doesn&#8217;t commit a fallacy of some kind?<\/p>\n<p>If we try to use intuition to help us judge, what would make us think that our intuition is more likely to be right than a (seemingly) logical argument?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m going to do something different: instead of telling you guys what I think, I want to hear what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}