🟡 DEFINITION OF INTUITION

 
Intuition
Feminine noun
(From Scholastic Latin intuitio, -onis, from Classical Latin intuitum, from intueri, to look at attentively)

  • 1. Direct, immediate knowledge of the truth, without recourse to reasoning or experience.
    Opposites:
    deduction – reasoning
  • 2. An unreasoned, unverifiable feeling that an event will occur or that something exists: Having an intuition of danger.
    Synonyms:
    inspiration – premonition – prescience – feeling

Three forms of intuition are commonly distinguished, though their boundaries are debated:

🟡 CLASSICAL INTUITION

🟡 INFRARATIONAL INTUITION

🟡 SUPRARATIONAL INTUITION

🟡 SUMMARY & EXAMPLES

 

Given its multifaceted and contested dimensions, intuition is approached in varied ways:

🟡 SCIENTIFIC APPROACH

🟡 FORTUITOUS APPROACH

🟡 SPIRITUAL APPROACH

Rather than opposing these diverse approaches, understanding intuition requires appreciating their complementarity.

🟡 CLASSICAL INTUITION