Meaning of intuition | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
   countable, uncountable
2. Alternative spelling of intuition.
   alt-of, alternative
3. intuitiveness
4. A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The native speaker's grammatical competence is reflected in two types of intuition which speakers have about their native language(s) — (i) intuitions about sentence well-formedness, and (ii) intuitions about sentence structure. The word intuition is used here in a technical sense which has become standardised in Linguistics: by saying that a native speaker has intuitions about the well-formedness and structure of sentences, all we are saying is that he has the ability to make judgments about whether a given sentence is well-formed or not, and about whether it has a particular structure or not. [...]”

“2008: “radjaerna”, RichardDawkins.net Forum: Should women have equal rights with men?, forum post № 775,752 on Friday the 28ᵗʰ of March at 11 o’clock p.m. I find it scary that I have given, though relying greatly on intuïtion probably more reasoning as to why ‘ethics’ is not something one can reason or formally debate about than many of the great ethics ‘philosophers’ (again, the word of Russell) have ever præsented in their opera.”

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