Intuition has many related meanings, including:
Quick and ready insight seemingly independent of previous experiences or empirical knowledge
Immediate apprehension or cognition, that is, knowledge or conviction without consideration, thought, or inference.
Understanding without apparent effort
Intuition (MBTI) is one of the four axes of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, opposite "Sensing".
Intuition (game) - "The Game You Already Know" was a board game produced in Toronto Canada for a few years in the early 1990s by the company "Applied In ...
Intuition is an unconscious form of knowledge. It is immediate and often not open to rational/analytical thought processes. Rationalisation of an intuition and the development of a chain of logic to demonstrate more structurally why it is valid may follow later.
Intuition differs from an opinion since the latter is based on experience, while an intuition is held to be affected by previous experiences only unconsciously. Intuition is also said to differ from instinct, which does not have the experience element at all. A person w ...
In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, intuition is one of the basic cognitive faculties, equivalent to what might loosely be called perception. Kant held that our mind casts all of our external intuitions in the form of space, and all of our internal intuitions (memory, thought) in the form of time.
Intuitionism is a position in philosophy of mathematics derived from Kant's claim that all mathematical knowl ...