What is the Nature of Intuition? How reliable is it? Ratiocination is the intellectual operation which consists of composition or synthesis, and decomposition or analysis. It is the operation of the discursive mind which puts things together and pulls things apart. All formal systems of reasoning and logic are meant as aids to ratiocination, and in our world today ratiocination is by far the dominant intellectual act. It is so dominant that when folks like BonJour reference intellection ('intuition') our culture tends to balk! — Leontiskos
I appreciate your dichotomy. But after all what exactly is intellection, after removing all inference reasoning (inductive,deductive,abductive)? It seems to me nothing left but definition of notion and reference of object. e.g
Bachelor is unmarried.
This is a table. (poiting at the table)
In other word, intellection is some sentence that I understand immediate when I get the meaning of each composition of them —— meaning of 'bachelor', 'unmarried' 'table'. In your terminology 'presupposed term and concept'.
I am skeptical this notion would be what BouJour and other foundamentalists (for example George Bealer) propose as a foundation for knowledge(take it as justified beliefs). For one thing, the truthness of such propositions seems too trivial to be a souce of evidence. The proposition 'bachelor is married .' despite its trueness takes me to no further belief. Additionally, it is true that the fact that even such proposition can be fallible does not follow that it cannot be the source of justification, but it obviously does not grant any positive epistomolocial status, right? So maybe in case ratiocination is available it should be prefered and we should be more careful when intellection is applied.
Anyway thanks again for your explaining the notions of ratiocination and intellection. And I am quite curious the history of these notions in philosophical discourse, since I have rarely encountered them in readings. Have a good day!