Reasoning does not exist apart from intuition.
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1 min readMar 1, 2016
Well now, I will vouch that intuition is an abductive sort of thing and therefore that it is a form of reasoning, employing the first step of all reasoning. Abduction. Guessing. Surmising. Accessing our internal capacity as part of reality, of the all, to dope things out..
There is no basis for assuming that reasoning exists apart from intuition.
Peirce: CP 2.129 Cross-Ref:††
129. In the fifth place, I strongly suspect that you hold reasoning to be superior to intuition or instinctive uncritical processes of settling your opinions. What basis of fact is there for this opinion?
