intuition

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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