Intuition

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) A looking after; a regard to.

(2): ( n.) Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth.

(3): ( n.) 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.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

A name given to immediate knowledge, as distinct from mediate or inferential knowledge, and which is matter of consciousness or direct perception.

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