[Sigia-l] Don't Make me Learn

[Frank Shepard]

Eric wrote: "so, one that empahsises affordances (and social conventions)
over (say) one
being internally logically consistent and predictable? The latter pair of
qualities being ironically an affordance itself, where instead of a physical
interface (eg. push bars on a door) we're talking of an intellectual
interface. (do make me think)"

As you note, the former option is much closer to "conventional" knowledge,
and the mediation (via tacit knowledge) it implies contrasts it with
intuition. The latter of your two options is more in line with a traditional
understanding of "intuition" -- i.e., direct, unmediated knowledge; seeing =
knowing (no reasoning needed) -- although the requirement that it be
predictable already complicates things. In other words, I don't think
intuition is the proper word for these scenarios. The notion of "intuition"
is dubious in epistemology, and also -- I would argue -- in design.

Frank