ARTS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Current Science, Hasty Generalization, Without Evidence
7 May 2017
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A factual claim is one in which the arguer suggests that there is evidence to support the conclusion. Without evidence, the claim is simply an assertion . Intuition: personal experience, testimonials, appeals to authority, personal observations, case examples, analogies, research studies. Intuitive knowledge is thought to come from within (divine - coming from the heavens) or innate (programmed into humans) . More current science suggests that intuitive knowledge can be better understand as deriving from the capacity to make good decisions on the basis of limited information . It is believable, in some situations reliable, but can not be applied generally : personal experience as evidence: environments using knowledge acquired in previous situations . The use of personal experience for evidence, however, carries some risks: . The ability to learn from previous experience allows individuals to solve problems in unfamiliar: intuition:
