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Poincaréan Intuition Revisited: What Can We Learn from Kant and Parsons? (2010)

MacDougall, Margaret (Author)

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Volume: 41
Pages: 138--147
Publication date: 2010
Language: English

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Philosophy Intuition 19th century Poincaré, Jules Henri Parsons, Charles Algernon Kant, Immanuel

This paper provides a comprehensive critique of Poincaré's usage of the term intuitionin his defence of the foundations of pure mathematics and science. Kant's notions of sensibilityand a priori formand Parsons's theory of quasi-concrete objects are used to impute rigour into Poincaré's interpretation of intuition. In turn, Poincaré's portrayal of sensible intuition as a special kind of intuition that tolerates the senses and imagination is rejected. In its place, a more harmonized account of how we perceive concrete objects is offered whereby intuitive knowledge is consistently a priori whatever the domain of application.

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