What is "intuition"

Intuition \In`tu*i"tion\, n. [L. intuitus, p. p. of intueri to look on; in- in, on + tueri: cf. F. intuition. See Tuition.]

1. A looking after; a regard to. [Obs.]

   What, no reflection on a reward! He might have an intuition at it, as the encouragement, though not the cause, of his pains.
   --Fuller.

2. Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; -- distinguished from ``mediate'' knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension.

   Sagacity and a nameless something more, -- let us call it intuition.
   --Hawthorne.

3. Any object or truth discerned by intuition.

4. Any quick insight, recognized immediately without a reasoning process; a belief arrived at unconsciously; -- often it is based on extensive experience of a subject.

5. The ability to have insight into a matter without conscious thought; as, his chemical intuition allowed him to predict compound conformations without any conscious calculation; a mother's intuition often tells her what is best for her child.

mid-15c., from Late Latin intuitionem (nominative intuitio) "a looking at, consideration," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin intueri "look at, consider," from in- "at, on" (see in- (2)) + tueri "to look at, watch over" (see tuition).

n. 1 Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes. 2 A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.

n. (context pedantic English) (alternative spelling of intuition English)

1. n. instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)

2. an impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong" [syn: hunch, suspicion]

Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without proof, evidence, or conscious reasoning, or without understanding how the knowledge was acquired. Different writers give the word "intuition" a great variety of different meanings, ranging from direct, mystic insight to unconscious pattern-recognition. The word "intuition" is often misused or misunderstood to mean instinct, truth, belief, meaning, and other subjects.

The word "intuition" comes from the Latin verb intueri translated as consider or from late middle English word intuit, "to contemplate".

Intuition is a phenomenon of the mind described as the ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason

Intuition may also refer to:

In music:

• Intuition (rapper), American rapper
• Intuition (Angela Bofill album)
• Intuition (Bill Evans album)
• Intuition (DJ Encore album)
• Intuition (Jamie Foxx album)
• Intuition (TNT album)
• "Intuition" (free improvisation), a 1949 recording by Lennie Tristano's quintet
• "Intuition" (song), a 2003 song by Jewel
• "Intuition", a song by Selena Gomez & the Scene from the album A Year Without Rain
• "Intuition", a song by British soul-funk band Linx
• "Intuition", a song by John Lennon from the album Mind Games
• "Intuition", a song by CN Blue from the album First Step

In other uses:

• Intuition (MBTI), one of the four axes of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
• Intuition (Amiga), a graphical user interface toolkit supplied with the Commodore Amiga computer
• Intuition (Bergson), the philosophical method of Henri Bergson
• Intuition Peak, a geographical feature in Antarctica
• Intuition, a book by Allegra Goodman
• Intuition in the philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd

Intuition is the fourth studio album by the Norwegian glam metal band TNT. The sound of the album was more commercial than on their previous albums. It is one of their most successful albums so far. Swedish metal band, Dragonland, covered the album's title track on their album, Astronomy.

Intuition is the eighth album by Angela Bofill, and was her first and only release on Capitol Records in 1988.

Intuition is an album by jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1975. It was reissued on CD by Original Jazz Classics in 1990.

Intuition is the debut album by the Danish Eurodance producer DJ Encore featuring the vocals of singer Engelina. It was released in Denmark on 8 October 2001 and in the United States on 20 January 2002.

"Intuition" is a song by American pop singer–songwriter Jewel. It was released in May 2003 as the lead single from her fourth studio album, 0304. The song was written and produced by Jewel and Lester Mendez. Following the club success of " Serve the Ego", Jewel moved to a more pop-oriented sound with the release of "Intuition". The song, which strays from her usual folk style with simple acoustic guitar instrumentation, starts off with a French accordion and then experiments with dance-oriented beats with subtle urban influences, using synthesizers. The song achieved moderate success in the United States, reaching number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. However, a number of Jewel's fans criticized her for abandoning her traditional folk style in exchange for a new pop sound. After the song was licensed to promote Schick Intuition razors, Jewel was accused of "writing a song that tells us all to resist the total marketing mentality... and then licensing that song to a consumer products company for a huge sales campaign."

Despite the change in genre, the song is lyrically similar to her previous work. It has a number of references to popular culture, including mentioning celebrities such as pop star Jennifer Lopez, model Kate Moss, actor Charlie Sheen, magazines, film culture, and commercialism.

Intuition is the native windowing system and user interface (UI) engine of AmigaOS. It was developed almost entirely by RJ Mical. Intuition should not be confused with Workbench, the AmigaOS spatial file manager, which relies on Intuition for handling windows and input events.

Intuition is the internal widget and graphics system. It is not implemented primarily as an application-managed graphics library (as most systems, following Xerox' design, have done), but rather as a separate task that maintains the state of all the standard UI elements independently from the application. This makes it responsive because UI gadgets are live even when the application is busy. The Intuition task is driven by user events through the mouse, keyboard, and other input devices. It also arbitrates collisions of the mouse pointer and icons and control of "animated icons". Like most GUIs of the day, Amiga's Intuition followed Xerox's lead anteceding solutions, but pragmatically, a command line interface was also included and it extended the functionality of the platform. Later releases added more improvements, like support for high-color Workbench screens and 3D aspect. Replacement desktop file managers were also made available, such as Directory Opus Magellan, or Scalos interface.

Users may remember the initial releases for the garish blue/orange/white/black palettes. This was intentional - in a time before cheap high-quality video monitors, Commodore tested output on the worst televisions they could find, with the goal of obtaining the best possible contrast under these worst-case conditions.

Intuition is the philosophical method of French philosopher Henri Bergson.

In An Introduction to Metaphysics, Bergson introduces two ways in which an object can be known: absolutely and relatively. Pertaining to each mode of knowledge is a method through which it can be gained. The latter’s method is what Bergson calls analysis, while the method of intuition belongs to the former.

Intuition is an experience of sorts, which connects us to the things themselves in themselves. Thus he calls his philosophy the true empiricism. In the following article, analysis and the relative will be explained as a preliminary to understanding intuition, and then intuition and the absolute will be expounded upon.

Intuition is the third studio album by American R&B singer Jamie Foxx. It was released on December 16, 2008, by J Records.

Despite mixed reviews from critics like his previous album, the album was commercially successful. The album has reached the top three on the US Billboard 200 chart and number 1 on the Top US R&B/Hip Hop Albums Charts, which it topped for six consecutive weeks. The album features several guest artists, including T.I., Lil Wayne, Ne-Yo, Kanye West, Fabolous, T-Pain, The-Dream, & Marsha Ambrosius.

Lee Shaner (born July 8, 1983), better known by his stage name Intuition, is an American rapper based in Los Angeles, California.

"Intuition" is the title of a free improvisation by the Lennie Tristano quintet. It was recorded on May 16, 1949, and is credited as being one of the first two freely improvised jazz recordings, along with "Digression" (made at the same session).

Intuition is the 2006 critically acclaimed novel written by Allegra Goodman. The plot centers on the happenings at the Philpott Institute, a cancer research lab in desperate need of funding. Controversy engulfs the lab when Cliff Bannaker, a youthful postdoc student, appears to fabricate results to an experiment.