Word: intuitionism
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It is a rare moment of levity in Kaldor's super-serious pursuit of art. This can be traced back, he says, to the five months he and his family spent in Paris after fleeing the Communist takeover of Budapest in 1948. "My parents took me to the Louvre and...
Luckily, our search behavior doesn't lie. Here's a hypothetical based on recent events. Imagine if you polled Americans and asked what was more significant: a candidate's past use of illicit drugs, or a candidate's enrollment in a Muslim school at the age of 6? Intuition says...
Some philosophers maintain that solving the problem of consciousness is beyond the reach of human intelligence. This is very odd and, I believe, untrue. It fits a sensible intuition that the mind is something special and different, separable from the brain, but the fact that the intuition is sensible does...
So by all means, offer tenure to the world’s best researchers, and bring them to Harvard to do what they do best. But when it comes to undergraduate education, there’s more to a great teacher than a long CV. As far as intuition is...
Nearly four decades and many rereadings later, I know better than to suppose that anyone fully penetrates Pynchon's intentions, not in V., not in his short masterpiece The Crying of Lot 49 and certainly not in his mammoth new book, Against the Day (Penguin Press; 1,085 pages). Of...