what is general definition of intuition?

Question

Hi all

can you define what the intuition is generally?

thank you

Answer 1

Inner tuition, an inner knowing without the senses. It often occurs as a gut feeling. We don't know how we know but we know. The right side of the brain is intuitive, creative and non-linear. It is a form of extra-sensory perception but is not always psychic. Our unconscious mind knows many things our conscious mind doesn't and can reveal these to us as an intuition. It is often emotional or on some level other than mental.

Answer 2

Either. I used to have this crazy intuition my mother-in-law was on something. Turned out to be meth. Some things, like paranoia about infidelity of a spouse, can be just that - paranoia. But as far as other family members go, especially those with whom you don't have an extrememly close physical connection, you should trust your intuition. The reason why I think intuition regarding a spouse can get foggy is that we have a much stronger emotional tie with them, and that can get in the way. Keep in mind, there is some truth to the whole "women's intuition" thing. We are much better at interpreting subtle non-verbal cues than men are (for the most part anyway). We pick up more on tiny, fleeting facial expressions and tone of voice details than do men. It's just how we are socialized to communicate.

Answer 3

If you want a dictionary or encyclopdia definition, they are available to you by googling the word "intuition". I recommend them myself. If you want a personal definition in my own words based om my knowledge and understanding, then here it is:

Intuition is the word we give to clear and distinct ideas and mysterious anticipations that come to us via the imagination AND REASON after we have done everything to prepare & develop our minds by absorbing and digesting as much knowledge and understanding as we humbly can. Intuition improves with knowlege from experience and study, and the humble intellectual effort we invest in the hard philosophy Q's that matter. Einstein, the greatest mind to have ever lived, knew this! Nietzsche knew this! So did Socrates, Plato , Aristotle, and all the other great philosophers and thinkers of the past and present (except the negative, selfish, narrow-minded subjectivists, nihililists, post-modernists, relativists, anti-intellectuals of the modern age). Descartes was the father of Modern Philosophy bec he made the point first!

Answer 4

1. instinctive knowledge: the state of being aware of or knowing something without having to discover or perceive it, or the ability to do this

2. instinctive belief: something known or believed instinctively, without actual evidence for it

3. philosophy immediate knowledge: immediate knowledge of something

[15th century. Directly or via French< late Latin intuition- "consideration" < Latin intueri "look upon" < tueri "to look"]

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861622157

the ability to understand or know something immediately, without conscious reasoning.

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/intuition?view=uk

the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=intuition

the power of knowing or apprehending something directly, without thinking it through logically.

http://www.wordsmyth.net/live/home.php?script=search&matchent=intuition&matchtype=exact

an immediate cognition of an object not inferred or determined by a previous cognition of the same object.

pure, untaught, noninferential knowledge.

http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/intuition

Answer 5

in•tu•i•tion n. immediate and instinctive perception of a truth; direct understanding without reasoning.

Answer 6

"The direct and immediate apprehension by a knowing subject of itself, of its conscious states, or other minds, of an external world, of universals, of values or of rational truths."

Answer 7

summarised experience