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Often appears with: reason and the intellect · justice as a virtue · intuition vs experience · innate character · human improvement · education and the training of the young
Usually: argument (1) · injustice endured (1) · the test or trial (1) · exhortation (1) · skepticism (1)
He argues that the dispute between intuition and experience-based association is not abstract but shapes practical reform, because intuition-centered views treat character differences as innate and thereby hinder rational social improvement.
as one of the pillars, and in this country from his high philosophical reputation the chief pillar, of that one of the two which seemed to me to be erroneous. Now, the difference between these two schools of philosophy, that of Intuition, and that of Experience and Association, is not a mere matter of abstract speculation; it is full of practical consequences, and lies at the foundation of all the greatest differenc…