intuition
Let an agent explain intuition as a cognitive process and its strengths and limits, present psychological and philosophical accounts with attribution, support decisions about when to trust intuition, and address misconceptions.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain intuition as a cognitive process and its strengths and limits, present psychological and philosophical accounts with attribution, support decisions about when to trust intuition, and address misconceptions.
The cognitive process of understanding or judging something immediately without conscious reasoning, drawing on pattern recognition, experience and emotion, studied in psychology as fast automatic thinking that is often accurate in familiar domains and prone to systematic errors elsewhere, discussed in philosophy as a source of knowledge including logical and mathematical intuition, and popularly contrasted with analysis, with terms such as truthiness naming feelings of truth unsupported by evidence.
What it is for: Immediate understanding without conscious reasoning.
It can be explain the process; present research and philosophy; support judgement about trust; address misconceptions.
Distinguishing features
Fast and automatic
Experience-based
Domain-dependent accuracy
Philosophical significance
What it looks like
Not physical; a mental process.
How it is recognised
Judgement without conscious reasoning
Pattern recognition, expertise, gut feeling
Instinct is innate; reasoning is deliberate; guessing lacks basis
Related models
is a kind of - category
is related to - evaluations formed intuitively
is related to - intuitive decision-making
is related to - checking intuitions against evidence
In practice
Families and kinds
expert intuition
everyday intuitive judgement
logical and mathematical intuition
moral intuition
unreliable intuitions such as truthiness
Standards and regulation
Research standards in cognitive psychology
No regulation of the concept
Professional decision-making guidelines
Failure modes and hazards
Overtrusting intuition outside expertise
Dismissing expert intuition
Presenting contested theories as settled
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.intuition
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What intuition is.
Psychology.
Concept
Concept and kinds.
Concept
Concept.
- What is intuition, and how do expert, everyday, logical and moral intuitions differ? definition
- Which sense of intuition is meant? boundary
Research
Research.
Research
Research.
- What does research on dual process thinking and expertise say about intuition, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which findings are contested? boundary
Apply Using intuition.
Practice.
Trust
When to trust it.
Trust
Trust.
- When is intuition likely to be reliable, and when should it be checked by analysis? action
- Which entry fits decision-making? action
Develop
Developing expertise.
Develop
Development.
- How does reliable intuition develop through practice and feedback? provenance
- Which entry fits expertise? action
Thought Philosophy.
Attribution.
Philosophy
Philosophical accounts.
Philosophy
Philosophy.
- How have philosophers treated intuition as a source of knowledge, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits epistemology? action
Mathematics
Mathematical intuition.
Mathematics
Mathematics.
- What role does intuition play in mathematics and logic? provenance
- Which entry fits philosophy of mathematics? action
Learn Culture and teaching.
Education.
Culture
Popular ideas.
Culture
Culture.
- How is intuition portrayed in popular culture, and what does truthiness name? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can intuition and its limits be taught? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should expert intuition be a separate entry?
- How should research literature be linked?
- How should philosophical sources be linked?