10 Facts About Intuition

1.

Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without recourse to conscious reasoning.

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Intuition finds that at present as the result of evolution the mind has accustomed itself to depend upon certain physiological functioning and their reactions as its normal means of entering into relations with the outer material world.

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Intuition finds this intuitive knowledge was common to older humans and later was taken over by reason which currently organises our perception, thoughts and actions resulting from Vedic to metaphysical philosophy and later to experimental science.

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Intuition finds that this process, which seems to be decent, is actually a circle of progress, as a lower faculty is being pushed to take up as much from a higher way of working.

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5.

Intuition suggests living in the state of intuition is one of the ultimate aims of humanity.

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6.

Intuition provides an example of mathematical truths, and posits that they are not arrived at by reason.

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7.

Intuition argues that these truths are accessed using a knowledge already present in a dormant form and accessible to our intuitive capacity.

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8.

Intuition finds that regular knowledge is based on imitation while intuitive knowledge is based on intellectual certitude.

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9.

Intuition's suggests that there is a scientific basis for using intuition and refers to "surveys of top executives [which] show that a majority of leaders leverage feelings and experience when handling crises".

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10.

Intuition was assessed by a sample of 11 Australian business leaders as a gut feeling based on experience, which they considered useful for making judgments about people, culture and strategy.

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