The term reflective equilibrium refers to, very simply put, when there's a balance between one's intuition and one's theories about the world.
Personally, I tend to strive for the opposite, an imbalance, because I find intuition to be treacherous and perhaps even a direct enemy of logic. As a word-lover, I would very much like to have an equally eloquent term to describe this point. Any good ideas?
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How about "creative dissonance". It's the idea that a clash of ideas leads one to think more about those differences and in doing so come up with new insights.
Perhaps Conceptual analysis, because it dismisses intuition.
Conceptual analysis is one of the main traditional methods of philosophy, arguably dating back to Plato's early dialogues. The basic idea is that questions like 'What is knowledge?', 'What is justice?', or 'What is truth?' can be answered solely from the capacity to understand the relevant concepts.
It is the idea that philosophy has a distinctive subject matter accessible in principle via a priori methods that trump the intuition or the empirical methods of science.
