When should we discard explanations that are intuitively...

Intuition is like a coin. It has two sides and about a fifty-fifty chance of being right or being wrong. To fully understand intuition though, we must define it, trace its history, and grasp the purpose of its design. Intuition is defined by dictionary.com as â€Å"an immediate cognition of an object not inferred or determined by a previous cognition of the same object.† What does this mean though? To fully understand what it means, let us relate this to personal experience. Have one ever had a moment where you thought something was wrong, a gut feeling, without really having solid evidence? This feeling is called intuition. It is a moment in which a person â€Å"sees† more into a situation, without prior knowledge to the situation. However,†¦show more content†¦In this case, we realize that sometimes clear and solid evidence has to be used to prove that something is right, even if everyone believes the opposite. But yet, another question/case arises from clash between the idea of reasoning or relying solely for knowing. Take, for example religion. Natural scientists believe that there is clearly no physical evidence of a God, or that Jesus even existed; therefore a knowledge issue is raised was how is religion deemed as true? They also believe that the Bible is not solid evidence and that even the words in the Bible are altered to what really happened. Yet, is there any way to falsify that there is not a God. It is true that human beings believe in a higher authority. In life, there will always be someone to whom you must answer, for ex. at a job. Imagine a receptionist; he has a boss, who may have a boss, who also may have a boss. This concept transcends into something spiritual in which some people believe that there is someone greater than all human beings, greater than anything on this planet and that thing is God. In the case of religion, because of the fact that it has not been falsi fied by physical evidence, there is no reason to discard the intuitively appealing explanation. One great example for sense perception is the way in which people view themselves. One must note however, that there is a difference in the ways people in different culture reflect upon themselves. That is why I amShow MoreRelatedWhen Should We Discard Explanations That Are Intuitively Appealing?1316 Words   |  6 PagesWhen Should we Discard Explanations that are Intuitively Appealing? Intuition, knowing or considering something to be likely from an instinctive feeling and not from conscious reasoning, is a difficult concept to deal with. Intuition can be often be true, but also lead us down a path of poor judgement. The difficulty with intuition is knowing when to accept it or when to reject it. Complicating this dilemma is dealing with explanations that are intuitively appealing. The more we want an explainationRead MoreQuestions On The Free Will2144 Words   |  9 Pagesin determining which of the three theses to discard. The first thesis is the Free Will Thesis, which simply states that agents sometimes act freely. This thesis seems to be reasonable for at least two reasons. The first reason is that, more often than not, we feel as though we are free; that is we feel as though we make a choice based on what we want, whether it be after careful consideration or merely on a whim. The very idea that we feel as though we make choices freely seems to lend a certainRead MoreStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 Pagesappropriate page within text. Copyright  © 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any m eans, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. To obtain permission(s) to use materialRead MoreMonte Carlo Simulation218872 Words   |  876 Pages vi this book is the concept of a change of measure. This idea is so central both to derivatives pricing and to Monte Carlo methods that there is simply no avoiding it. The prerequisites to understanding the statement of the Girsanov theorem should suï ¬Æ'ce for reading this book. Whereas the language of mathematical ï ¬ nance is essential to our topic, its technical subtleties are less so for purposes of computational work. My use of mathematical tools is often informal: I may assume that a local