In seeking Mrs. Aubyn's company he was prompted by an intuitive taste for the best as a pledge of his own superiority.
For one must take into consideration another mode, in addition to the intuitive of assimilating new truth, and of making the transition from one mode of life to another.
They lie, and by their specious arguments deceive themselves as well as others, obscuring and deadening their intuitive perceptions.
Marcia's blind, intuitive belief in the man's innocence brings its own reward.
She was not ignorant of it for, although too modest to think herself of any great concern to others, her intuitive sixth sense made her well aware her goings and comings were watched.
There were between them no more silent sympathies and intuitive agreements.
But the great mass of our ideas are too imperfect or too complicated to admit of intuitive conclusions; consequently, as to them, we can never arrive at demonstration.
He has an intuitive conviction that the obligations of this divine code press on others as truly as on himself.
Nevertheless they are still unmistakable in animals, whose merely intuitive representation stands midway between organic functions induced by stimuli and the deliberate acts of Man.
On the whole, all that can be affirmed is, that every true and primary notion, every genuine philosophic theorem even, must have some sort ofintuitive view for its innermost kernel or root.
To attain knowledge of this, is the direct function of the faculty of judgment, as the mediator between the intuitive and the abstract or discursive faculty of knowing--in other words, between the Understanding and the Reason.
The true kernel of all knowledge is that reflection which works with the help of intuitive representations; for it goes back to the fountain-head, to the basis of all conceptions.
Shakspeare was poor in dead school-cram, but he possessed a rich treasury of living and intuitive knowledge.
The boy simply had a little intuitive skill in drawing, and the exercise of the talent was a gratification.
At fifteen, the keen, intuitive mind of Rubens had fathomed the talents of those two worthies, Verhaecht and Franck.
Kant’s doctrine is an intuitivetheory of morality.
In face of these difficulties, many moral philosophers have given up the utilitarian theory and declared for an intuitive theory.
The antivivisectionists, on the other hand, rely on the intuitive theory, according to which conduct is controlled by the spontaneous activity of our conscience.
The intuitive theory of morality has had no greater success than utilitarianism.
Harvey we are all driven in the end, by those intuitive processes of reasoning which are hardly less conclusive than mathematical induction itself.
Yet this, as we have already noted, does not invalidate the argument; in both the first and the last paragraphs it is implied that the a priori and intuitive characteristics of space have already been proved.
It is the necessary form of all our intuitions, and therefore also of imagination, which is intuitivein character.
Our conceptual representations of infinite magnitude must be derivative products, acquired from this intuitive source.
Does not its recognition conflict with Kant's denial of the possibility of self-conscious reflection, of direct intuitive apprehension by the self of itself?
For the concept of 7 we must substitute the intuition of 7 points, for the concept of 5 the intuition of 5 points, and for the concept of their sum the intuitive operation of addition.
The references in B 71-2 to the intuitive understanding are among the many signs of Kant's increased preoccupation, during the preparation of the second edition, with the problems which it raises.
They are here introduced, not in the ambiguous manner of the fourth[1] argument on space, but explicitly as a further argument in proof of the intuitive character of time.
From the above implications it would appear that the intellect and the intuitive faculty are two separate and distinct processes, and so they are.
The a priori consciousness being the intuitive faculty of the Thinker is, therefore, a phase of his mental life on a higher plane than the sensuous.
Happy indeed shall be the outcome if there be any who, following the path sketched herein, shall find the solution of the Mystery of Space and apply its meanings to the enhancement of the values of the intuitive life.
From such an attitude it is not far to the Zen intuitive approach to understanding.
There is such a faculty in the intuitive mind, which as we have seen is the link between the intellectual mind and the Universal Mind.
They also found Zen's emphasis on the quick, intuitive response agreeably in accord with their approach to armed combat.
Here we may find the best evidence of what the intuitive side of the mind can produce--evidence all the more fascinating because it repudiates many of the most cherished assumptions of Western civilization.
When you stop asking and surrender to a kind of intuitive osmosis, you will have begun the journey into the culture of the counter mind.
But the fault really lies in thisintuitive feeling of justification not being itself justifiable.
Her knowledge of general society must have been limited, as must be that of all female sovereigns; but she seemed gifted with an intuitive knowledge of human nature, which she applied to her special ambition of ruling it.
Before you can teach him a rule in addition, before you can venture to drill him into his horn-book, he leaps, with one intuitive spring of all his ideas, to the comprehension of the truths which are only incomprehensible to blundering sages!
It was ane wanting to speak to the Laird," said Jeanie, who felt something of the intuitive terror which she had formerly entertained for this termagant, when she was occasionally at Dumbiedikes on business of her father's.
Self-evidently this intuitive recognition is no discovery.
Thus to volatilize the material simultaneously in the form and to join the technical with the intuitive elements is the highest quality of lyric poetry.
That intuitive judgment, which sees the reason of everything at a glance, and applies the proper agencies to the case in hand, is wanting in his composition.
Doubtless it is true that some native or intuitive gifts must be conjoined with much mental discipline and perseverance, in order to reach the highest result, in this method of reading, as in any other study.
The moment his eye lights upon a title-page he should be able to take it all in by a comprehensive and intuitive mental process.
This knowledge, to one expert in that language, even if he does not speak it, should be as intuitive as the art of spelling correctly, either in English or French.
A few strokes preserved the outline which his memory filled up; and by an intuitive glance, his genius understood and appropriated every signal beauty.
Faith to the Theologian is the exercise of the intuitive reason on divine things.
So in Music, the one function of this intuitive principle is the immediate apprehension of vitality in the best work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intuitive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
