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  2. Intuition - Wikipedia

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    Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge, without recourse to conscious reasoning or needing an explanation. [2] [3] Different fields use the word "intuition" in ...

  3. Criteria of truth - Wikipedia

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    Intuition is an assumed truth with an unknown, or possibly unexamined, source. It is a judgment that is not dependent on a rational examination of the facts. It is usually experienced as a sudden sensation and/or rush of thoughts that feel "right".

  4. Intuition and decision-making - Wikipedia

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    Intuition, in contrast, is a more instantaneous, immediate understanding upon first being confronted with the math problem. Intuition is also distinct from implicit knowledge and learning, which inform intuition but are separate concepts. Intuition is the mechanism by which implicit knowledge is made available during an instance of decision-making.

  5. Infallibilism - Wikipedia

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    Definition [ edit ] In philosophy , infallibilism (sometimes called "epistemic infallibilism") is the view that knowing the truth of a proposition is incompatible with there being any possibility that the proposition could be false.

  6. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    This can result in more value being applied to an outcome than it actually has. An example of this is the IKEA effect , the tendency for people to place a disproportionately high value on objects that they partially assembled themselves, such as furniture from IKEA , regardless of the quality of the end product.

  7. Counterfactual thinking - Wikipedia

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    This can involve making a change in our behavior immediately after the negative event occurred. By actively making a behavioral change, we are completely avoiding the problem again in the future. An example is forgetting Mother's Day, and immediately writing the date on the calendar for the following year, to avoid the problem.

  8. Jungian cognitive functions - Wikipedia

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    Intuition, on the other hand, does perceive the image that caused it, perceiving it and its course in a very detailed manner rather than the giddiness itself, which is "the image of a tottering man pierced through the heart by an arrow". [2] "For intuition, therefore, the unconscious images attain the dignity of things or objects.

  9. Positivism - Wikipedia

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    Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive – meaning a posteriori facts derived by reason and logic from sensory experience. [1] [2] Other ways of knowing, such as intuition, introspection, or religious faith, are rejected or considered meaningless.