Intuit

[Curious George]

Great points! But I would say that you are distinguishing several different definitions of the same word, rather than offering evidence that intuition is just one thing that includes all those different aspects. If you know what I mean.

I am doing exactly that to illustrate the point that it lends itself to equivocation. The word is the part that is tricky not the concepts to which the word refers.

 

[Sapiens]

Intuition is, in reality, retrospective not prospective. "Wow, it was a lion in the bushes" ... my intuition saved me. "Nah, just a gazelle" ... guess I didn't have to use my intuition. There's a whole lot of self-deceit goin' round.

 

[LukeS]

To believe without reasoning or logical thought. Sometimes its better not even to believe (intellectual apprehension), but just feel in a completely passive way (pure intuition).

 

[Fool]

Intuition is, in reality, retrospective not prospective. "Wow, it was a lion in the bushes" ... my intuition saved me. "Nah, just a gazelle" ... guess I didn't have to use my intuition. There's a whole lot of self-deceit goin' round.

an infant with limited cognition has no such retrospective from which to observe, neither does an observer in an area of no, or limited, experience and/or knowledge. imagining, believing/hypothesizing, must take precedence in those experiences. the mind automatically and intuitively fills in the gaps for lack of information. in other words it tries to make sense of what appears as nonsense to the self.

hypothesizing is nothing more than a best guess; which is what a belief is.

it only becomes a chronic problem when the belief isn't tested, or can't be tested because of physical limitations with the current technology.

 

[Sapiens]

I'd suggest that you are confusing intuition and instinct.

 

[columbus]

Does belief possibly come from intuition?

The really difficult to grasp word here is belief. It can cover so many things.

I firmly believe that a clear daytime sky on earth is always blue. There's no intuition involved, I've never seen differently. Nor have I heard a credible report of anything else. I can't prove it to anybody else though, not if they refuse to come out from under their blankets.
Similarly, I believe in God but not religion. Its clear to me that religion is fiction, invented by humans for a variety of reasons. Some reasons are better than others, but still. As a result, I don't "believe". This despite believing in a great many things, including God. There's no intuition involved here either. It's as evidence based as my beliefs about the sky.
Tom

 

[Fool]

The really difficult to grasp word here is belief. It can cover so many things.

I firmly believe that a clear daytime sky on earth is always blue. There's no intuition involved, I've never seen differently. Nor have I heard a credible report of anything else. I can't prove it to anybody else though, not if they refuse to come out from under their blankets.
Similarly, I believe in God but not religion. Its clear to me that religion is fiction, invented by humans for a variety of reasons. Some reasons are better than others, but still. As a result, I don't "believe". This despite believing in a great many things, including God. There's no intuition involved here either. It's as evidence based as my beliefs about the sky.
Tom

Etymology of belief

Definition of belief

Synonyms of belief

Even more synonyms of belief

 

[`mud]

the sound of the shadow cast from a butterfly's wing,
intuition tells us it's there, but we can't be sure, can we ?