intuitions

The capacity to hold rational thoughts alongside irrational intuitions is part of the mind's design.

Archive 2009-03-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

The only thing possible for him is to go forward step by step, trusting more to the guidance of God than to his own designs, to what are called intuitions more than to reasoned conclusions.

From a College Window Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

What some philosophers have called intuitions, and what Kant called the categories of the mind,

George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885

What some philosophers have called intuitions, and what Kant called the categories of the mind, Lewes regarded as the inherited results of human experience.

George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy Cooke, George W 1884

The intuitions are the bright band, without armor or shield, that slay the mailed and bucklered giants of the understanding.

Birds and Poets : with Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

These nerve-convulsions are so genuine and so apt that they are known as intuitions, and under this name they have achieved importance.

Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White Joel Chandler Harris 1878

Yet as far as three his intuitions are the same as those of civilised people.

Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society Walter Bagehot 1851

The whole question seems to me insoluble, for I cannot put much or any faith in the so-called intuitions of the human mind, which have been developed, as I cannot doubt, from such a mind as animals possess; and what would their convictions or intuitions be worth?

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845

All conceptions, therefore, and with them all principles, however high the degree of their a priori possibility, relate to empirical intuitions, that is, to data towards a possible experience.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

And Sweets is almost somewhere in between, dealing with suppositions and informed intuitions, which is not faith but not quite hard evidence, either.

Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress 2010