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On understanding and
explanation. Understanding and explanation have various values in
appreciating and living in the world. However, we cannot expect to explain
every-thing. Although we see in certain terms, it is not to be expected that
an explanation of those terms is necessarily possible. Of course, we might
like and do not object to such explanation. Under the spell of explanation we
sometimes think its absence is somehow a deficiency, somehow a necessary
reason to not act—this is not the case…
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Why we see. That we
are able to negotiate the environment whose constitution is of a variety of
modalities, makes it necessary that there should be distinctions among the
perceptual modalities and that the perceptual modalities should have at least
some degree of implicit faithfulness
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On Intuition. The
term has a number of uses. It is what enables us to see, the ability to see,
in certain ways without necessarily understanding how we see in those ways.
It is important to be aware of the meaning that we use—especially
since the idea of intuition is one of the pillars of the present developments
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We understand the world in
certain terms but it does not follow that we understand the understanding;
therefore the terms in which we see the world are appropriately labeled
Intuition
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How we experience the
world, e.g. in terms of space and time and cause and
properties, occurs outside experience