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Intuition

Intuition

Part 2 of the series “In Defence of Other Ways of Knowing”

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Aug 19, 2022
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This is the second post in a series In Defence of Other Ways of Knowing.

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In Defence of Other Ways of Knowing
In his book The War on the West, the erudite Douglas Murray mocks the claim that ‘Other Ways of Knowing’ (or indigenous knowledge) should be taught in schools. Murray flippantly dismisses this by saying that we don’t ask the Inuit to create a vaccine. Implicit here is the idea that the rational or scientific way of looking at the world is the only one o…
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