Literary notes about intuitive (AI summary)
The term “intuitive” is frequently employed to denote a direct, immediate apprehension of truth or beauty that bypasses systematic reasoning. Philosophers and writers alike contrast intuitive knowledge with laid-out, derivative methods, as seen when memory and cognition are portrayed as dependent on an unmediated, self-evident form of certainty ([1], [2], [3]). At other times, “intuitive” characterizes the spontaneous, almost instinctive ability to recognize character traits or moral essences, as in the swift discernment of a person’s nature or the grasping of objective facts ([4], [5], [6]). Moreover, the term surfaces in discussions of aesthetics and art, where the perception of form and the internal sense of beauty are described as inherently intuitive ([7], [8]). This multifaceted use underscores a literary fascination with that immediate, non-rational insight pivotal to both philosophical inquiry and everyday understanding ([9], [10]).
- Thus there must be intuitive judgements of memory, and it is upon them, ultimately, that all our knowledge of the past depends.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell - A priori conceptions, in discursive cognition, can never produce intuitive certainty or evidence, however certain the judgement they present may be.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - It can, therefore, at best define one sort of knowledge, the sort we call derivative, as opposed to intuitive knowledge.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell - He had an intuitive perception of Mr. Pickwick; he knew him at once.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - Mr Boffin, who had a deep respect for his wife's intuitive wisdom, replied, though rather pensively: 'I suppose we must.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens - Y.M. Do you believe in the doctrine that man is equipped with an intuitive perception of good and evil?
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain - And it is necessary for him to have that intuitive power that seizes instinctively on those variations of form that are expressive of this inner man.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed - He had cultivated his judgment with great application, and his taste was guided by intuitive perception of moral beauty, aptitude, and propriety.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius - This question leads us to the examination of that third phase of the intuitive method, which was called Philosophical Intuitionism.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick - The intuitive, no less than what may be termed the inductive, school of ethics, insists on the necessity of general laws.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
