REFLECTIONS

1. If something is intuitively obvious, must everyone agree about it (is there anything that every1 agrees about)?
2. Could u be wrong in thinking that something is intuitively obvious. (Might you one-day come to see that what u now think is intuitively obvious is in fact a deeply rooted prejudice)
3. Whose intuition should you trust? Are some people’s intuitions are better than others?
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Firstly, I have to accept, that I am not quite sure about the exact reference to the term, ‘ intuitively obvious’. After all, how can an intuition be obvious? In fact I perceive that intuition is one fact on the face of this earth that we yet cannot comprehend completely. None of us know the exact reason or cause behind an intuitive feeling. All we can say is that it just happens, “instinctively”! Most of the times we cant even recognize a particular feeling as an instinctive one or not. We find it difficult to express our intuitive feelings, even with all the boundless limitations of language. Thus if something is intuitively obvious, it would mean that thing would be an event which all of us can predict. The only things the human race can agree about are about things over which they have no control. The sun will rise in the east, and so it did, today morning and I had an intuition about the same. Hence if something is intuitively obvious, it must be something over which we have no control. If we have no control over something, than why bother if everyone agrees with it or not, because its still going to happen, whether one likes it, or not!
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as discussed, I believe, that the only things that are instinctively obvious are things related to natural phenomenon. No one can be wrong to think if something’s intuitively obvious. This is because of the very nature of intuition. Intuition, unlike a gut feeling, is something that is undeniably true. Therefore no 1 can be wrong to think something is “intuitively” obvious.
3- This one’s interesting. Intuition is a natural quality. The question in itself is incorrect, as intuitions are always true. But maybe what it tries to refer is to the facts that to whose gut feeling does one have a greater inclination to believe in. I perceive that this is a highly subjective question and varies greatly from one individual to another. The world in general would agree that Nostradamus is one person whose gut feelings would be most trustworthy. But again its really upto one’s personal opinion and perception on who to trust and whom to not. Reason plays a minimal part in this discussion and probably through one’s own personal experience, one can judge for himself about whose intuition to trust.