"You keep using that word. I don't think that word means what you think that word means" (Inigo Montoya).

Looking over Edward's interests, and his disdane for the mis-use of the paradigm, I was taken back to my speech to new philosophy students about the mis-use of words.

My particular bitch is against the use of the word "intuition" in such context as "I had an intuition the plane was going to crash." No you did not!!!! You may have had a premonition that the plane would crash, but not an intuition.

Intuitions are infallable, immediate, a priori truthes (such as a cause must have as much reality as its effect). Now granted one may make a stong case for the immediate nature of true predictions of the future, but I think that uses in this context step away from the meaning of word Intuition. I can see the etemology in progress, but that doesn't make it good usage. We have a word for that already and it's premonition.

Thank you everyone!
Goodnight!
really, be well!