Q. If something is intuitively obvious, must everyone agree about it? (Is there anything that everyone agrees about?)

Ans. Intuitions are considered to be a source of knowledge. ‘Intuitions’ are associated with the Aha moment of insight where one suddenly stumbles upon a solution to a problem without undergoing any conscious process of reasoning. The term ‘intuitively obvious’ in the question arises generally when someone is asked to justify their reasons for something. For e.g. in the olden days one may have said that it is intuitively obvious that the world is flat as that was what they believed the reality was, however, now one may say this as he/ she have evidence that the world is not flat but round, this evidence may be in form of pictures, videos etc to justify her reasoning. So, if backed by proof, everyone must agree about it; at least for the time being until they have not proved this philosophy wrong too. However, there are cases where it is not necessary for everyone to agree about, that something, that is ‘intuitively obvious’. This is because there cases where one person/party would have a strong intuition for something, whereas the other, would disagree. For e.g. is sati an ethical practice; for most of the people it would be intuitively obvious that burning a woman alive is absolutely unethical and absurd, however there are people in rural areas of our country who yet believe in this hysterical practice; here, we witness what one person thinks to be incorrect may be different from the perceptions of others. Hence, until proved, it is not necessary that everyone has to agree that something is intuitively obvious.