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Thinking and Language: Intuition and Decision Making
People make intuitive, immediate judgments sometimes based on nothing more than a tone of voice on the other end of a conversation. People also make more reflective decisions based on thought and reasoning. Daniel Kahneman notes that intuition is li...
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Is Reason the Source of Knowledge?: Reason, the Source of Knowledge
Seventeenth century rationalists like Descartes and Leibniz believe that knowledge comes from reason alone. It is not necessary to see examples in the physical world;truth can be grasped entirely in the mind. This is a period in which science is mak...