Intuitions

The capacity to hold rational thoughts alongside irrational intuitions is part of the mind's design. ❋ Gordon McCabe (2009)

The only thing possible for him is to go forward step by step, trusting more to the guidance of God than to his own designs, to what are called intuitions more than to reasoned conclusions. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

What some philosophers have called intuitions, and what Kant called the categories of the mind, ❋ George Willis Cooke (1885)

What some philosophers have called intuitions, and what Kant called the categories of the mind, Lewes regarded as the inherited results of human experience. ❋ Cooke, George W (1884)

The intuitions are the bright band, without armor or shield, that slay the mailed and bucklered giants of the understanding. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

These nerve-convulsions are so genuine and so apt that they are known as intuitions, and under this name they have achieved importance. ❋ Joel Chandler Harris (1878)

Yet as far as three his intuitions are the same as those of civilised people. ❋ Walter Bagehot (1851)

The whole question seems to me insoluble, for I cannot put much or any faith in the so-called intuitions of the human mind, which have been developed, as I cannot doubt, from such a mind as animals possess; and what would their convictions or intuitions be worth? ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

All conceptions, therefore, and with them all principles, however high the degree of their a priori possibility, relate to empirical intuitions, that is, to data towards a possible experience. ❋ Immanuel Kant (1764)

And Sweets is almost somewhere in between, dealing with suppositions and informed intuitions, which is not faith but not quite hard evidence, either. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Our intuitions are a good place to begin a philosophical discussion, but a terrible place to end one. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I do not mean by this, that these representations do necessarily belong to each other in empirical intuition, but that by means of the necessary unity of appreciation they belong to each other in the synthesis of intuitions, that is to say, they belong to each other according to principles of the objective determination of all our representations, in so far as cognition can arise from them, these principles being all deduced from the main principle of the transcendental unity of apperception. ❋ Immanuel Kant (1764)

However psychologically compelling "gut feelings" rooted in friendship may seem, and however readily they resonate with the public, study after study in the social, political and economic sciences show that such "intuitions" often lead to erroneous inferences and misguided actions, and generally provide a poor basis for decision making. ❋ Scott Atran (2010)

This is why I think we have nothing whatsoever to go on, and ID's "intuitions" are very likely to be nothing but anthropomorphic projections that have driven animistic theories throughout our history. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I would be very curious to hear an argument which might offer some theory which explained and validated these kind of intuitions as something other than habit, upbringing, or evolutionary biology. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One would think that an Examiner has to be in the field, at the factories, in the labs of the companies who practice in the art in order to acquire the "intuitions" necessary for knowing the "common sense" of those skilled in the art. ❋ Peter Zura (2007)

[Use] your [intuition] [wisely] ❋ Anon127M (2020)

[hunch]/ suspition ❋ Khalid (2004)

She [looked up] into his eyes, her intuition and every part of her body was telling her not to, but she her [best friend's] boyfriend like she had never [kissed] before. ❋ ...............talia.................... (2008)

An example of intuition would be one is "[daydreaming]" and suddenly one receives a bit of Knowledge that allows one to [perceive] some aspect of the world in a different and more correct way. But as soon as one attempts to "think" about ones intuition, the intuition seems to [dissolve]. ❋ Esodoc (2009)

That website [payment] [function] is [poorly] designed. It’s not intuitive. ❋ Fat Cat 65 (2020)

You'll be fine [on the test], just intuitate the [answers] from the questions themselves. Maybe if you weren't such a dumbass you'd [rely] on intuitation instead of studying. ❋ Nathan M (2005)

My wife has intuited the second wave of [UFOs] in [lock] step with the [tides]. ❋ Slickwilly (2005)

[ISTJ]: I don't get intuitives. Some of them do nothing but complain about us, others proclaim themselves [masterrace]. [ENTP]: are you here for the memes? ISTJ: no. ENTP: get the f*ck out sENsOr aHHhahhahaAHahhAhhAhaHA i will now determine whether i was joking by how you react ❋ Typologer (2020)

Yes, [Sophie] is in [rehab] again; her intuitivity makes it impossible for to stay away from [the bottle]. ❋ Jakers5990 (2014)

[Kim Kardashian] said "[intuition]" led her to end her 72-day-old [marriage]. ❋ Ihatestupidwhores (2011)