Geoffrey MillerVerified account

I'd like bo @EPoe187 to try to explain most knowledge of how physics work is "intuitive". We actually fought tooth and nails for millennia to overcome intuition (sun rotates around the earth, just look!, earth is flat or I would fall from it!)

I think there may be some degree of conflation here between 'intuition' and 'presupposition': this latter being the set of (often tacit) assumptions upon which 'that which seems obviously true' rests. We still use intuition, we have simply altered the presuppositions behind it.

Many modern intellectuals appear to be nothing but vapid linguists with high levels of verbal intelligence. It's like the only tool they know how to use is a hammer so everything looks like a nail (ie, they use their only tool - language - to deconstruct everything).