what is intuition, is it true?

Answer 1

What about the small hairs on your back that rise up, or the little green men that are on your shoulders? I don't have the luxury to think about such fanciful thoughts, i've got a job that simple...with no room for alternative judgements...

Answer 2

Intuition (knowledge) - understanding without apparent effort, quick and ready insight seemingly independent of previous experiences or empirical knowledge.

Intuition (gut feeling) - a spontaneous impulse to take an immediate, unplanned action, which in retrospect, proves to be the most beneficial action to take in order to positively influence an unknown future event or situation
Intuition is an unconscious form of knowledge. It is immediate and often not open to rational/analytical thought processes. Intuition differs from an opinion since opinion is based on experience, while an intuition is held to be affected by previous experiences only unconsciously. Intuition also differs from instinct, which does not have the experience element at all. Intuition is trans-intellectual, while instinct is pre-intellectual. A person who has an intuitive opinion cannot immediately fully explain why he or she holds that view.

Truth and proof
In classical mathematics, mathematical statements assert something about truth. Intuitionism takes the truth of a mathematical statement to be equivalent to its having been proved; what other criteria can there be for truth, an intuitionist would argue, if mathematical objects are merely mental constructions? This means that an intuitionist may not believe that a mathematical statement has the same meaning that a classical mathematician would.

For example, to claim an object with certain properties exists, is, to an intuitionist, to claim to be able to construct a certain object with those properties. Any mathematical object is considered to be a product of a construction of a mind, and therefore, the existence of an object is equivalent to the possibility of its construction. This contrasts with the classical approach, which states that the existence of an entity can be proved by refuting its non-existence. For the intuitionist, this is not valid; the refutation of the non-existence does not mean that it is possible to find a constructive proof of existence. As such, intuitionism is a variety of mathematical constructivism; but it is not the only kind.

As well, to say A or B, to an intuitionist, is to claim that either A or B can be proved. In particular, the law of excluded middle, A or not A, is disallowed since one cannot assume that it is always possible to either prove the statement A or its negation.

The interpretation of negation is also different. In classical logic, the negation of a statement asserts that the statement is false; to an intuitionist, it means the statement is refutable (i.e., that there is a proof that there is no proof of it). The asymmetry between a positive and negative statement becomes apparent. If a statement P is provable, then it is certainly impossible to prove that there is no proof of P; however, just because there is no proof that there is no proof of P, we cannot conclude from this absence that there is a proof of P. Thus P is a stronger statement than not-not-P.

Intuitionistic logic substitutes justification for truth in its logical calculus. The logical calculus preserves justification, rather than truth, across transformations yielding derived propositions. It has given philosophical support to several schools of philosophy, most notably the Anti-realism of Michael Dummett.

Intuitionism also rejects the abstraction of actual infinity; i.e., it does not consider as given objects infinite entities such as the set of all natural numbers or an arbitrary sequence of rational numbers. This requires the reconstruction of the foundations of set theory and calculus as constructivist set theory and constructivist analysis respectively.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionism#Truth_and_proof

Answer 3

Intuition is teh ability of the mind to jump to conclusions ahead of the typical linear thought. Not only is it true, it can be honed into a skill.
I don't know if psychics get information from cestial sources, or rather they are just drawing conclusions based on available information they didnt realize they had.
A good discussion of this is in the book Blink by Malcom Gladwell

Answer 4

Intuition is according to some scientists, your subconsious comunicating with you. Your sub-con can do things that your consious mind can't. It controls your heart, lungs, reflexes, and a whole other bunch of organs. It can also detect things that your concsious mind would look over. But if you ask a psychic they will tell you that it is your psychic power, which all people have access to because there are areas of your brain that scientists have not found to normally do anything. Some scientists think that this is the part of your brain that controls one's psychic power. At any given time your brain only operates at about 7%. Einstein's operated at about 9%. Einstien also theorized that if we had access to all of our brain that we would exist purely as energy and would not need our bodies, supporting psychic phenomenon.

Answer 5

Intuition is very true. It is like a conscience. It tells me what to do and I have never been steered wrong.

Answer 6

Intuition is an inner knowing that cannot necessarily be explained. Yes, it is true, trust it.

Answer 7

I think its just a natural reaction to warn us of danger. Here's an example You and your buddies meet some guys but one of them or what they propose to you it doesn't seem right so intuition kicks in. hard to explain you just know

Answer 8

Quick and ready insight, gut feeing. Yes,it is true.

Answer 9

intuition is that gut feeling you have...we all have experienced it.

Answer 10

I have a hunch it is true.