The English word “Intuition” is derived from the Latin intus, meaning “within.” Intuition, therefore, is the presumed capacity, intrinsic to the human spirit, to create truth and knowledge in the absence of inference or reason. In other words, the practice of intuitive reasoning is not constrained by facts, and has no explicit need to test its conclusions with experiments or by conducting further analyses. Thus, intuition is also known as common sense. Yet, it is more… [...]
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There are true authorities in every field who have a tenacious grip on their field of knowledge. Unfortunately, genuine experts are almost impossible to find, despite the fact that many people advertise themselves as such, or have impressive letters after their names that do the advertising for them. I know a number of Ph.D.s who are not experts, even within the fields of their earned doctorates. [...] Polluting impurities can be introduced to our waterways from point sources such as isolated natural or man-made conditions in the environment, or from extensive, diffuse sources that are either natural or man-made. Though it is common to assume that man-made industrial waste and domestic sewage sources are the primary culprits behind the pollution of our waterways, scientific studies conclusively show — today — that natural causes, such as soil erosion, silt-bearing runoff, and the biological life cycles of various kinds of native aquatic and terrestrial organisms, are significant sources of water pollution in their own right. [...] Vermin (such as rats and mice), certain species of potentially disease-carrying insects (e.g., cockroaches) or dangerously venomous spiders (e.g., the black widow and the brown recluse) that are capable of producing serious, debilitating, or even life-threatening wounds with a single bite, can actually create a distressing, hostile environment, i.e., an infestation, when only a single specimen is present. For all other organisms, the presence of a few or even moderate numbers can usually be tolerated, but even they — when they inhabit or overrun a locale in greater numbers, to the point that they become harmful, threatening, or obnoxious — generally rise thereby to a level at which the term can accurately be applied. [...] — BugsInTheNews is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE. This article by Jerry Cates, first published on 4 February 2011, was revised last on 7 July 2012. © Bugsinthenews Vol. 12:02(03) —————————— Please don’t be discouraged to find you must log in and register before leaving a comment. When this website was first established, public comments were permitted [...] The name is a reference to William of Ockham, a 14th-century logician who asserted that, when explaining a phenomenon, one should use the fewest assumptions necessary. Thus Occam’s razor argues for minimalism and opposes complexity; for simplicity and against excess; toward direct approaches and away from abstruse ones. A modern rendering, with particular respect to the second of these, is “Keep it Simple, Stupid!”, properly described as the KISS concept. [...] It is a curious fact, given the published research of Mortimer Adler and others, that most of us grow up believing that mistakes are the bane, and not the boon, of our existence. In 1941, writing in the Journal of Educational Sociology, Adler — buoyed by his access to over two thousand years of accumulated wisdom — presented an excellent case for the supposition that making even egregious mistakes spurs the learning process onward in special ways. If Adler is correct, each mistake we make should be cause for celebration. But no, instead we tuck our tails, bite our upper lips, and hang our heads in shame… [...] |
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