Literary notes about Intuition (AI summary)
In literature, "intuition" is deployed as a multifaceted concept, bridging abstract philosophical ideas and immediate, often pre-reflective human understanding. Philosophical works tend to treat intuition as an a priori form that conditions our perception of space, time, and the overall structure of experience—as seen in discussions of pure intuition that underlies our cognitive framework [1], [2], [3]. At the same time, narrative texts harness the term to evoke an almost mystical, spontaneous insight, whether describing a divine spark of awareness or a character's swift grasp of a situation [4], [5], [6]. This dual usage underscores intuition's role as both a foundational cognitive faculty and an evocative, literary motif that conveys immediate, unmediated comprehension.
- 3. Space is no discursive, or as we say, general conception of the relations of things, but a pure intuition.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - Time is not a discursive, or as it is called, general conception, but a pure form of the sensuous intuition.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - Hence it follows that an a priori intuition (which is not empirical) lies at the root of all our conceptions of space.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - This is neither pride nor fatuousness on my part; it is a sort of intuition that comes to me, I think, from Heaven above.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo by Juliette Drouet and Louis Guimbaud - What is it?” persisted Natásha with her quick intuition.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - " A clear intuition came to me one night that the prophecy was wholly false.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
