Intuition (psychology)
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- | # Immediate [[cognition]] without the use of [[conscious]] or rational [[process]]es. | ||
- | # A [[perceptive]] [[insight]] gained by the use of this [[faculty]]. | ||
- | '''Intuition''' is apparent ability to acquire knowledge without a clear inference or reasoning process. | + | '''Intuition''' is the "the immediate [[apprehension]] of an object by the mind without the intervention of any [[reasoning]] process" [Oxford English Dictionary]. |
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Intuition, by definition, has no objective validity. However it is extremely widespread as an apparent phenomenon. For this reason, it has been the subject of study in [[Psychology]], as well as a topic of interest in the [[supernatural]]. | Intuition, by definition, has no objective validity. However it is extremely widespread as an apparent phenomenon. For this reason, it has been the subject of study in [[Psychology]], as well as a topic of interest in the [[supernatural]]. |
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Intuition is the "the immediate apprehension of an object by the mind without the intervention of any reasoning process" [Oxford English Dictionary].
Intuition, by definition, has no objective validity. However it is extremely widespread as an apparent phenomenon. For this reason, it has been the subject of study in Psychology, as well as a topic of interest in the supernatural.
See also
- Artistic inspiration
- Brainstorming
- Common sense
- Cognition
- Cryptesthesia
- Déjà vu
- Eastern epistemology#Faith and Intuition
- Extra-sensory perception
- Insight
- Instinct
- Intuition (philosophy)
- Intuition pump, a term coined by Daniel Dennett
- Intuitionism
- Intelligence analysis#Trained Intuition
- List of thought processes
- Medical intuitive
- Noetic theory
- Nous
- Precognition
- Preconscious
- Religious experience
- Remote viewing
- Serendipity
- Social intuitionism
- Subconscious
- Synchronicity
- Tacit knowledge
- Truthiness
- Unconscious mind
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