intuitive reason
Example Sentences
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Then she “selected three messages which for some intuitive reason I believed might end with the character for reply.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
The former were the offspring of fanaticism; the latter of an appeal to appetite or passion, or fancy, or perhaps intuitive reason directed blindly or unconsciously towards natural phenomena.
From Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir
In addition to these strictly moral virtues, he will possess the intellectual virtues of prudence and wisdom, the resources of art and science; and will finally possess the gift of insight, or intuitive reason.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton
Wisdom implies intuitive reason, which grasps undemonstrable first principles; it is concerned with the interests not of the moment, the individual, or the locality.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
But he has not shown that God cannot be known by the intuitive reason.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman
