I agree with R. Paul that 'intuit' is a trick of a verb. I for one don't use it, unless applied to my mother: --- "My mother intuits he is a criminal" ---- But then I use 'subscript': -- My mother intuit-amgs he is a criminal" This allows me to add, "But as often she is wrong". With Gettier we could claim, against Chisholm, that 'intuit' is like 'know' only different. Let us take the fictional example: Mr. Geach intuits that boiling one baby is 'better' than boiling two babies. Miss Anscombe disagrees: she intuits that boiling one baby cannot be 'better' _regardless_. "The problem," Anscombe would say, 'is with 'better'. This is a 'royalist' verb, I call them". She would stick, alla R. Paul, with 'right' and wrong' (It is important to introduce 'wrong' because 'not right' is never so strong). "I intuit that boiling one baby is wrong" With "I intuit" as parenthetical -- see Urmson's book, "Intuitionism" and "Parentheticals" essay. Urmson would say the claim, "I intuit that boiling one baby is wrong" is _softer_ than "Boiling one baby is wrong" -- ('methinks the lady doth protest too much'). The good thing about 'Boiling one baby is wrong' is that it eliminates the source of the claim to 'know' or 'intuit'. "Most of my mother's intuitions, as they turned out to be, were false" -- Geary, "Mother Who Bored Me". Cheers, JLS **************Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the web. Get the Radio Toolbar! (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003) ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html