[Avodah] Intuition - sources

[Micha Berger]

I hit "send" too soon. To continue:

I'm talking about the sort of reasoning used to reach a pesaq,
regardless of whether the din is in hilkhos Shabbos. We usually think
of pesaq in terms of logical argument -- given that X, Y and Z, we can
conclude the din should be... I am suggesting that often pesaq is so
tied to gefeel that the logical argument comes after.

More along the lines of:
: OTOH R' AW frequently says "libi
: omer li" which I think fits nicely with your general theory...

Like the idea that there is no way to upshlug one of the Rambam's "li
nir'eh"s. If he gives a specific argument, you can find another
argument more convincing. But if he reaches a conclusion from the
entire worldview built from years of learning and a picture of how the
inyan works, the conclusion reflects all of that.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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