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Webster 1913 Edition
Intuition
Inˊtu-i′tion
,Noun.
1.
A looking after; a regard to.
[Obs.]
What, no reflection on a reward! He might have an
intuition
at it, as the encouragement, though not the cause, of his pains. Fuller.
2.
Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; – distinguished from “mediate” knowledge, as in reasoning;
as, the mind knows by
; quick or ready insight or apprehension. intuition
that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.Sagacity and a nameless something more, – let us call it
intuition
. Hawthorne.
3.
Any object or truth discerned by intuition.
Webster 1828 Edition
Intuition
INTUI'TION
,Noun.
A looking on; a sight or view; but restricted to mental view or perception. Particularly and appropriately,the act by which the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, or the truth of things, immediately, or the moment they are presented, without the intervention of other ideas, or without reasoning and deduction.
We know by intuition, that a part is less than the whole.
Definition 2024
Intuition
Intuition
German
Noun
Intuition f (genitive Intuition, plural Intuitionen)
Declension
Declension of Intuition
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | Intuition | die | Intuitionen |
| genitive | einer | der | Intuition | der | Intuitionen |
| dative | einer | der | Intuition | den | Intuitionen |
| accusative | eine | die | Intuition | die | Intuitionen |
intuition
intuition
English
Alternative forms
- intuïtion (pedantic)
Noun
intuition (plural intuitions)
- Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
- 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, ISBN 0-521-34750-5, page 4:
- The native speaker's grammatical competence is reflected in two types of
intuition which speakers have about their native language(s) — (i) intuitions
about sentence well-formedness, and (ii) intuitions about sentence structure.
The word intuition is used here in a technical sense which has become stand-
ardised in Linguistics: by saying that a native speaker has intuitions about the
well-formedness and structure of sentences, all we are saying is that he has the
ability to make judgments about whether a given sentence is well-formed or
not, and about whether it has a particular structure or not. [...]
- The native speaker's grammatical competence is reflected in two types of
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- A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
immediate cognition without the use of rational processes
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perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty
References
- intuition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- intuition in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911