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Originally Posted by TimMason
If you say that there is no other knowledge but the scientific kind, you seemingly pour hundreds of thousands of years of human existence into a large muddy bucket of error.
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In that post, I never said that knowledge was unknown prior to the discovery of the scientific method. What I said was, "Throughout our long history, humans have stumbled on many things of benefit to our species, and many of these have been passed on via ritualistic methods, but it has proven to be a haphazard and error-riddled quest." People may have accidentally discovered that eating the bark from certain trees or the leave of certain plants had curative effects, but I still maintain that it is not another way of knowing.
Intuition works, in my opinion, only for the mind prepared by facts. We may gain insights from dreams or eureka moments, but only if the gray cells been fed the information upon which to to work and seek connections, even if that work and those connections have been processed without out conscious awareness. People who routinely achieve successful outcomes by "trusting their gut" may think they are receiving aid from an outside agency or suppose that they have discovered "another way of knowing", but what they are unknowingly relying upon is all those consciously forgotten snippets of information that have been retained subconsciously and upon the mind continues to work without their conscious awareness.
As to whether "hundreds of thousands of years of human existence" has been "a large muddy bucket of error"; I leave to others to decide.