What does "intuition" mean?

Intuition: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth.

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