Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Great Regulars: I can see from the above poem that rational

scientific knowledge is rational only because it is obtainable through reason. The others obtainable through means other than reason are not irrational; they are extra-rational or suprarational. Logicians may deprecate the woolly fuzziness of intuition; the intuitionists can easily decry the strictures of logic. Actually, there is no exclusiveness of one over the other. Discursive reasoning is not possible without poetic intuition.

from V Sundaram: News Today: Baritone: Poetry and Chennai poets

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