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Indigenous knowledge systems place a lot of stock into intuitive and instinctual knowledge. More value is placed into these types of learning as a source of knowledge than communities that are influenced more by science and rational thought processes. Even the creation and transfer of knowledge in indigenous cultures are more intuitive in nature.

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Another commonly known instict is the babies cry. Babies are born with this survival mechanism. They use their cry to inform their parents that they need something and they even change the pitch and volume of their cry to indicate how serious the situation may be.

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A common instinct that everyone possesses is the flight or fight instinct. This is because in high stress situations, like being in danger, the brain releases chemicals which prepare one for an impending scenairo. Adrenaline is released and our sense, impulses and awareness all become intensified. Our quick decision making in the face of danger is what leads us to either fight or flee. This is one of our greatest survival instincts.

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Various studies have been conducted on intuition being connected to gender. It is said that women are more intuitive, as they are better at 'reading' emotions. The on-going argument is whether women being more intuitive is based on nature or nurture. Is it nature for a woman to be more intuitive? Or, is being intuitive more based on ones nurture and environment?

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Are intuition & instinct valid forms of knowing?

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Are intuition & instinct valid forms of knowing?

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Intuitions and insticts prove to be useful time and time again. Be it our decisions in everyday situations or in our ability to predict certain patterns. We should not discount intuition and instinct as a form of gaining knowledge as knowledge of any sort is valid

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Are intuition & instinct valid forms of knowing?

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Are intuition & instinct valid forms of knowing?

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I believe that intuitive and instinctual knowledge are valid forms of knowing and reaching the truth. Although sometimes the knowledge can lead one astray, it typically leads to a solid understanding or belief. We can not yet fully comprehend the complexities of our body and its system workings but it is important to listen to our intuitions and instincts as our body does know best even if we do not understand. From learning about our intuitions and instincts we can futher our understanding of other types of knowledge and we can learn about our own personal biases or others and even discount some as illusions.

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Modern philospher, David Lewis has a quite simple and basic look into the knowledge of intuition. He thinks that intuitions are merely opinions and beliefs, not factual knowledge.

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Philosopher, Ernest Sosa looks at intuition as simply judging propositions by understanding the proposition that was posed.

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Philosopher George Bealer argues that intuition is philosophical
evidence. Bealer claims that only intuition can be used in answering the central questions of
philosophy. These central questions are the big questions that philosophers often pose and have wondered about forever. He believes that intuition should have different value regarding evidence besides that of empirical evidence.

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Like many philosophers, John Austin created a theory about our intuitions. He believed that our intuitions were solely guided by our grasp of ordinary language. This is partly true, as language is thought to help shape some of our intuitions.

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John Locke believed that intuition was a perfectly good source of knowledge and that more people should put stock into their own. Locke mapped out the boundaries for intuition. On one side he has sense perception and the other is demonstration. Intuition is somewhere inbetween.

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Philosophers often tested ideas off intuition. In Plato's dialogue Theaetetus, he uses an intuitive scenario with Socrates as evidence for general claims. One of the general claims is that knowledge is something more than just true belief.

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Plato, one of the most famous philosophers ever, believed that our intuitions were guided by our memory of the forms. He used his theory of the forms as evidence for this belief that our intuitions come from what we remember from the true forms.

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Truth, in the realm intuition and instincts is both relative and absolute. Relative truth is quite clear when looking into intuition, but not so much for instincts. In intuition things can change depending on the experience and it varies from person to person. We can be led astray by our instincts because intuition itself is not perfect and we often make judgements thinking that they are intuitive, but they are not. People can have different intuitions and your own intuitions could be in conflict with each other ultimately leading to relative truths.

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Truth, in the realm of intuition and instinct is both absolute and relative. Absolute truth is evident in this way of knowledge. It can be said to be absolute specifically for instinctual drives because this type of knowledge is engraved in the subconcious. These instinctual drives are fixed and invariable within oneself. For intuition, some things are known as fixed or unchanging. An example is in ethics. Ethical things are intuitively right and wrong, therefore being absolute truths. Many other things also qualify as being intuitivly absolute.

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Is intuition & instinct rational or empirical?

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Is intuition & instinct rational or empirical?

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In rationalism, there is the idea that when humans are born, they are born with prior knowledge known as innate ideas. These innate ideas such as, how to suck, cry, grasp and more could possibly explain instinctual behaviours. Babies are not instructed on how to do these things, they are merely human instict. In this sense instinct relies on rational ideals.

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Is intuition & instinct rational or empirical?

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Is intuition & instinct rational or empirical?

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In the case of whether intuition and instinct leans more towards empiricism or rationalism, the answer is both. Specifically looking at empiricism in the realm of intuition and instinct, we can see that our knowledge base relies largely on our experiences and sense to give us information. We use this information to further our intuitive and instinctual knowledge.

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Is intuition & instinct rational or empirical?

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Is intuition & instinct rational or empirical?

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Not only does intuition and instinct incorporate empiricist ideas, but it also deals with rationalism. As we know, intuition can be based on reason and logic.

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Where is the authority of this knowledge?

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Where is the authority of this knowledge?

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Insinctual knowledge is primitive. It is within all of us because of our primitive anscestory. It is within oneself and natural to all humans.

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Where is the authority of this knowledge?

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Where is the authority of this knowledge?

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Typically, our intuitions come from within oneself. From where? It comes from the subconcious. The subconscious knowledge is the result of the processing of a range of experiences and past knowledge. Normally we are completely unaware of our instincts or intuitions as they are deep within.

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Where is the authority of this knowledge?

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Where is the authority of this knowledge?

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It is a strong belief that most of our knowledge in intuition comes from the experiences we have. After either positive or negative experiences our subconcious will be able to make better decisions about future events by associating what happend in the past with the present and making assumptions about what could happen.

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Where is the authority of this knowledge?

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Where is the authority of this knowledge?

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A majority of the authority of this knowledge comes from the senses and our sense perception of our surroundings. We use our senses along with our inner intuitions to come to conclusions and make decisions.

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Intuition is a type of knowledge known as procedural knowledge, meaning that our knowledge is increased primarily by practice and experiences. Intuition is a mix of memory, emotion and sense perception.

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As we know, intuition is similar to emotional knowledge. Intuition considers our emotions.

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To some extent, intuition is based on reason. Intuition takes into account past knowledge and experiences to come to logical conclusions, or what seems logical to the subconcious.

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Intuition is considered a type of knowledge because it has origins in pattern seeking behaviour. Our brains are able to recognize certain patterns and intuitively sense what is going to happen.

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It is thought that emotions play a large role in shaping our intuitions. Intuition itself is very similar to emotion as it guides us to knowledge, but it does not require a change in the psychological state.

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Instinct is basically genetically hard-wired into our brains. It helps us survive and cope with our environment.

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Similar to emotion, language is also thought to play a large role in shaping our intuitions.

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Intuitive kowledge is often refered to as being in the subconcious or in the body. The body will 'feel' a certain way with intuition

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In the knowledge of intuition, one often feels as they have butterflies in their stomach or can feel a tingle in the pit of their stomach.

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Intuitive knowledge is a subconcious information that we carry with us always. It is a type of innate knowledge.

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INTUITION & INSTINCT