INTUITION

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 23

(Lat.in tue or,//ooAmto.) In Philosophy, any act of the mind by which a truth is immediately perceived, and as it were beheld, without any previous proce of analysis or ratiocination. Such, according to Kant, are the fundamental propositions of geometry; as, that " tv/o straight lines cannot inclose a space," . [s. 622]