Philosophically, it is an immensely problematic concept as it requires a special mental faculty of intuition, with no readily describable mechanism of causation for the knowledge thus acquired. Most attempts to preserve the objective truth of moral statements fall back on a form of intuitionism: the statement "Kindness is better than cruelty," for example, has massive intuitive appeal, even though the concepts within it defy meaningful empirical analysis. | Philosophically, it is an immensely problematic concept as it requires a special mental faculty of intuition, with no readily describable mechanism of causation for the knowledge thus acquired. Most attempts to preserve the objective truth of moral statements fall back on a form of intuitionism: the statement "Kindness is better than cruelty," for example, has massive intuitive appeal, even though the concepts within it defy meaningful empirical analysis. |