If you have to ask, you'll never know
November 11th 2009 06:33
I have to write a blog today or my account will apparently become inactive, so, I'll just write a short one on a favourite quote of mine that I'll continue in a later blog.
"If you have to ask, you'll never know".
I love this because it is in favour of intuition. Particularly in my field of study, philosophy, people are asked to explain why they believe what they do. The problem is, though, that the reasons given are always only an approximation if what they already believe through their intuitive, or pre-rational, thought.
It also applies to aesthetics and more subjective fields. In the field of wine tasting, for example, if you are given a glass of Penfolds Grange, only to ask what is so good about it, it indicates a non-discerning sense of smell and taste, which no amount of explaining can account for.
It also applies to my blogs: if you have to ask what the he'll I'm on about, no amount of explaining on my part will fully enable you to grasp my point of view.
"If you have to ask, you'll never know".
I love this because it is in favour of intuition. Particularly in my field of study, philosophy, people are asked to explain why they believe what they do. The problem is, though, that the reasons given are always only an approximation if what they already believe through their intuitive, or pre-rational, thought.
It also applies to aesthetics and more subjective fields. In the field of wine tasting, for example, if you are given a glass of Penfolds Grange, only to ask what is so good about it, it indicates a non-discerning sense of smell and taste, which no amount of explaining can account for.
It also applies to my blogs: if you have to ask what the he'll I'm on about, no amount of explaining on my part will fully enable you to grasp my point of view.
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