What's the philosophical difference between intuition and inference?

Answer 1

intuition is without thought or any organized thinking: it is direct. inference is contrived, arrived through the mind, through logic and therefore, bound by its limitations.

Answer 2

what is the difference between air and water.?
same is the difference of intuition and inference
intuition does not contrive from any phenomenon, object but inference is contrived from a phenomemon
intuition is natural inclination towards truth, it is from divine , where as inference is got through the existence of certain facts and figures.
intuition does not have any evidence but have some signs.
intuition may be relate to six sense but inference does not it is the result of efforts of our five senses plus environment.
intuition is for particular people but inference is for all.

Answer 3

Intuition is one of means to reach inference . inference means what you know that is true but intuition means to underestand problems through thought and sense.

Answer 4

Inference is based strongly in facts and laws of logic.
Intuition is based on a broader human experience and makes more conjectures, and thus can work with less facts.
Intuition is more flexible, but is wrong more often.

Answer 5

As beings, we have our instinctual selves and our higher selves. Both are essential in any form of decision-making. Our instinctual self answers to the more basic form of what we are; the place within us that was "born knowing". Much of instinct has little or nothing to do with what we've been taught, what we've learned, or what we've considered, but has more to do with what we derive in a moment of quick judgement. It is essential to our ability to react quickly and accurate, and is essential to the perpetuation of our species.

Inference is more an act of our higher selves. It is the portion of our being that we in essence "raise" through nurture and care. We create our logic by exposing it to different subject matter, forcing it to analyze ideas, and living through certain experiences. This portion of our being is also essential to understanding life, because it is the part of us that we in essence "create" and then utilize as necessary to better the world around us. Inference forces ourselves to look as objectively as we can, using assumed ideas, to understand the world around us, and move forward with actions based on such understandings.

One caveat, this is simply my opinion, the act of inference on my part based on observations and experiences I have gone through and absorbed throughout the years.

Good luck!