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"Intuition has its roots in the syncretic type of thinking of the child and of
human beings in the early stages of civilization. But it does not survive in
adults and in highly developed cultures only as a mere residuum.

We claim
that intuition expresses a profound necessity of our mental behavior.
During the very course of our reasoning, of our trial-and-error attempts,
we have to rely on representations and ideas which appear, subjectively, as
certain, self-consistent and intrinsically clear.

We cannot doubt everything at
every moment. This would be a paralysing attitude. Some representations,
some conceptions have to be taken for granted. They have to appear, subjectively,
as autonomous, coherent, totally and directly acceptable cognitions in
order to keep the process of reasoning working fruitfully.

An intuition is, then, such a crystallized - very often prematurely closed
- conception in which incompleteness or vagueness of information is
masked by special mechanisms for producing the feelings of immediacy,
coherence and confidence.

Such mechanisms have been described in the research literature, but very
often without any apparent connection with a theory of intuition. In the
present work an attempt has been made to take advantage of these research
sources. Studies in overconfidence, in subjective probabilities, findings
referring to mental models, to typical errors in naive physics, to misconceptions
in mathematics, to the evolution of logical concepts in children etc.
represent, in fact, rich potential sources for a theory of intuition.

The Variery of Meanings
In some contexts, intuition is referred to as a source of true - or apparently
true - knowledge. It is generally in this sense that the term intuition is used
in the works of Descartes (1967) and Spinoza (1967). For both of them, in a
world of misleading appearances and futile interpretations, intuition remains
the ultimate reliable source of absolutely certain truths.
For others, intuition is rather a method, a sort of mental strategy which is
able to reach the essence of phenomena. Bergson has been the main
advocate of this usage. According to Bergson, intelligence addresses itself to
the world of objects, of solids, of static realities. In order to understand
reality, intelligence uses a “cinematographic” procedure: the uninterrupted
flow of real phenomena is cut into sequences of static representations mainly
expressed in concepts. But the essence of motion, of life, of spirit, of duration
cannot be reached this way. According to Bergson it is through intuition - a
kind of sympathetic identification - that we are able to grasp the very
essence of living and changing phenomena (Bergson, 1954).
The term intuition is also used for indicating a certain category of
cognitions, i.e. cognitions which are directly grasped without, or prior to, any
need for explicit justification or interpretation. It is in this sense that Piaget
refers to spatial and temporal intuitions, to empirical and operational
intuitions, to pure intuitions etc. (Beth and Piaget, 196 1).
In Kant’s terminology the concept of intuition gets a more restrictive
meaning, compared with those referred to in the previous presentations.
Namely, according to Kant, intuition is simply the faculty through which
objects are directly grasped in distinction to the faculty of understanding
through which we achieve conceptual knowledge.

Since to some philosophers intuition is the way to reach the essence; the
absolute truth, a natural consequence would be to consider intuition as the
way to approach divinity. Mystical and generally religious intuitions have
often been discussed in philosophical and theological works (see Wild, 1938,
pp. 97-11 4). Let me"[(1]" also mention the use of the term intuition as related to
professional capacities. A physician, an engineer, a politician, a psychologist
etc. may be said to be able to use his or her intuition in solving complex
professional problems: the solution seems to appear promptly only on the
basis of an apparently summary evaluation.

Let me"[(1]" mention the example of Berne, a psychiatrist who has elaborated a
theoretical approach to intuition on the basis of his professional experience.
According to Berne a specialist becomes able, as a result of practice, to make
correct, global, professional evaluations by resorting to a great variety of cues
about which he is, in fact, not aware (cf. Westcott, 1968, pp. 42-44).
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0x0000) Martin, Rod; The Psychology of Humor - An Integrative Approach.
1) Fischbein, Efraim; Intuition in Science and Mathemathics

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