tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726083.post386761498616483187..comments2023-10-10T09:46:13.964-04:00Comments on Tillers on Evidence and Inference: Levels of Awareness and Factual InferenceAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03081983465036974432noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726083.post-15766863808443798972010-07-31T09:11:17.000-04:002010-07-31T09:11:17.000-04:00Intuition -- tacit knowledge, subconscious knowled...Intuition -- tacit knowledge, subconscious knowledge, unconscious inference -- has its uses. Indeed, without it, we literally could not survive; for example, without it we could not manage to walk in a city without being hit by a car. But the fact that tacit knowledge is indispensable does not always mean we should rest content with how we know at present. If we did that, we would not have invented space ships, automobiles, the computer chip, or the abacus. It may be possible to improve the drawing of inferences. The real trick is to figure out when a suggested explicit method is actually an improvement and how to blend tacit brain operations with explicit reasoning and evidence marshaling.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03081983465036974432noreply@blogger.com