intuition

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And as our intuition is always sensuous, no object ever can be presented to us in experience, which does not come under the conditions of time.

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  1. noun The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition. See Synonyms at reason.
  2. noun Knowledge gained by the use of this faculty; a perceptive insight.
  3. noun A sense of something not evident or deducible; an impression.

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  • Your intuition is a needle in a haystack, but at least it's there. —  San Francisco Bay Guardian: Top Stories
  • Of course with all this the one question is as to whether such conceptions are true; but judged by intuition, which is the Roentgen ray of spirit--judged by the data reached by scholars and thinkers, by psychologists and scientists--it has no claim to recognition. —  The Life Radiant
  • It was a lumping together of all five known human senses--and half a dozen unknown ones called, collectively, "intuition"--into one super-sense that was all-inclusive and all-informative. —  Masters of Space
  • He was accustomed to act by intuition, not by logic, and his intuition was all against accepting MacDougall’s offer. —  The Blood of the Conquerors
  • To define the scope and province of this intuition is the purport of Croce's epoch-making Aesthetics_, the basis and starting-point of his illumining work, in Critica_, as a literary critic. —  Recent Developments in European Thought
 

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  1. Middle English intuicioun, insight, from Late Latin intuitiō, intuitiōn-, a looking at, from Latin intuitus, a look, from past participle of intuērī, to look at, contemplate : in-, on; see in-2 + tuērī, to look at.

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  1. = French intuition = Spanish intuicion = Portuguese intuição = Italian intuizione, from Middle Latin intuitio(n-), a looking at, immediate cognition, from Latin intueri, look at, consider: see intuit.
 

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/ɪntjuˈɪʃən/
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