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  • adjective Capable of being intuitively sensed or understood.

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intuit +‎ -able

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Examples

  • The third law of imaginative metamorphosis involves their completion, by which Dilthey means a process "by which something outer is enlivened by something inner or something inner is made visible and intuitable by something outer" (Dilthey 1985, 104).

    Wilhelm Dilthey Makkreel, Rudolf 2008

  • Frege captures the idea nicely when he says that a logical principle is valid in “the widest domain of all; [¦] not only the actual, not only the intuitable, but everything thinkable” (Frege 1884, 21).

    Plural Quantification Linnebo, Øystein 2008

  • If the mountain were to be about a mile high, it can serve as the unity for the number that expresses the earth's diameter, and so makes this diameter intuitable.

    Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics 2005

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