Intuition
From Hobson's Choice
In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, an intuition refers a basic idea or entity. For example, one may have an intuition of a house; but an actual house may be, for example, a single family dwelling with two stories, shingle siding, and white trim. "Single family dwelling," "having two stories," "having shingle siding," and "having white trim" are all conceptions of the house; but they are not the same thought-element as "house," which is abstracted of any descriptive characteristics.
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See Also
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External Links
- Immanuel Kant (trans. Norman Kemp Smith), Critique of Pure Reason (etext version) Palgrave Macmillan (1929/1985); complete text of Meiklejohn translation, far superior readability
- Andrew Brook, Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2008 Edition); see esp. "2.1 Transcendental Aesthetic"
