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Intuition vs. Perceptive

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Intuitionnoun

Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.

Perceptiveadjective

Having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.

‘He is so perceptive when it comes to other people's feelings.’;

Intuitionnoun

A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.

Perceptiveadjective

Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.

Intuitionnoun

A looking after; a regard to.

‘What, no reflection on a reward! He might have an intuition at it, as the encouragement, though not the cause, of his pains.’;

Perceptiveadjective

of or relating to perception;

‘perceptive faculties’;

Intuitionnoun

Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; - distinguished from "mediate" knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension.

‘Sagacity and a nameless something more, - let us call it intuition.’;

Perceptiveadjective

having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment;

‘a perceptive eye’; ‘a perceptive observation’;

Intuitionnoun

Any object or truth discerned by intuition.

Intuitionnoun

Any quick insight, recognized immediately without a reasoning process; a belief arrived at unconsciously; - often it is based on extensive experience of a subject.

Intuitionnoun

The ability to have insight into a matter without conscious thought; as, his chemical intuition allowed him to predict compound conformations without any conscious calculation; a mother's intuition often tells her what is best for her child.

Intuitionnoun

instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)

Intuitionnoun

an impression that something might be the case;

‘he had an intuition that something had gone wrong’;

Intuitionnoun

the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning

‘we shall allow our intuition to guide us’;

Intuitionnoun

a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning

‘your insights and intuitions as a native speaker are positively sought’;

Intuition

Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without recourse to conscious reasoning. Different fields use the word in very different ways, including but not limited to: direct access to unconscious knowledge; unconscious cognition; inner sensing; inner insight to unconscious pattern-recognition; and the ability to understand something instinctively, without any need for conscious reasoning.The word intuition comes from the Latin verb intueri translated as or from the late middle English word intuit, .

‘intuition’; ‘consider’; ‘to contemplate’;

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