intuition

(in-ta-ish’on), n. [= F. in twit i on = Sp. intuicion = Pg. intuigdo = It. intuizione, ¢ ML. intuitio(n-), a looking at, immediate cognition, intuition (Some writers hold that the German Anschawung should not be translated by intuition. But this term is a part of the Kantian terminology, the whole of which was framed in Latin and translated into German, and this word in particular was used by Kant in his Latin writings in the form intuit us, and he frequently brackets this form after Anschauung, to make his meaning clear. Besides, the cognitio intuitiva of Scotus, who anticipated some of Kant’s most important views on this subject, is almost identical with Kant’s own definition of Anschauung. Intellectual intuition, used since Kant for an immediate cognition of the existence of God, was by the German mystics employed for their spiritual illumination (the term intuitio tntellectualis was borrowed by them from Cardinal de Cusa), or light of nature. } 4. Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; a first or primary truth; a truth that cannot be acquired by but is a umed in experience.— 5, Pure, untaught knowledge. We denote this primary wisdom as intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions. Hmerson, Self-Reliance, p. 56. _Intellectual intuition. See intellectual.