INTUITION EXPERIENCE GENERALIZATION

By: Darla Catón

WHAT IS INTUITION?

Has many relamed meanings, including: Intuition (knowledge) - understanding without

apparent effort, quick and ready insight seemingly independent of previous experiences or empirical knowledge.

Intuition (gut feeling) - a spontaneous impulse to take an immediate, unplanned action, which in retrospect, proves to be the most beneficial action to take in order to positively influence an unknown future event or situation

WHAT IS EXPIRENCE?

The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.

Text Perception

We can say that by "instinct" we mean here a generic readiness, disposition of a man to decode a text, which is possible thanks to the knowledge of the code in which a text is written, and thanks to previous reading experiences.

INSTINCTIVE

The "instinctive" aim of our reading consists in locating a sense in the text and, to do that, we often use intuition. To say that does not mean to say that we get a text's sense exclusively by intuition and that, therefore, our understanding is dangling by the intuitive thread.

INTUITION

But, as Peirce makes us notice, intuition is that something extra that allows us to take a dramatic, quantum leap at the opportunity to imagine ele-ments of novelty, to hypothesize new knowledge, save then considering fundamental the need to test the hypothesis, to verify you are on the right path.

PEIRCE’S THEORIES

The purpose of reasoning, is to proceed from the recognition of the truth we already know to the knowledge of novel truth. This we may do by instinct or by a habit of which we are hardly.

The purpose for reasoning, such as it is described, is to proceed toward the knowledge of new truth, of fresh knowledge, which eliminates all kinds of rea-soning that do not add anything to acquired knowl-edge from focus, like deduction. The intuition that is linked to the perceptive phase of the text gives us a set of hypothetical elements that form a structure to constitute the whole meaning of the text.

  

INTERPRETATION

Produced by a text string are built from a historical memory that provides for the progressive comparison of equal or similar text string and, if applicable, assimilated into the previous perceptions and interpretations.

GENERALIZATION OF EXPERIENCE

The reoccurrence of such associations is what produces habit, generalization of experience and the attempt to hoist a bundle of experiences to the status of norm (regularity).

Do Generalizationa have an absolute permanet value?

Is easy to see why. Experience and habit are founded on the possibility of cataloguing reading and interpretation perceptions.

INSTINCTIVE PERCEPTION

Evolves into an accumulation of experience,

and that the accumulation of experience in turn becomes the formation of habits.

As a result new perception give a new experience, to which old habit is not applicable and must be adapted.

HOW A GOOD TRANSLATION CAN BE DIFINE?

A good translator is someone who has never quite experienced enough to do her or his job well; just one more language, one more degree, one more year abroad, fifty or sixty more books, and s/he'll be ready to start doing the job properly.

CONCLUSION

A good translator must always want to know more and have more experience that never fells quite satisfied with his job he just completed.

Expectations stay forever a step or three in front of reality, and keep the translator forever restlessly in search of more experience3.