intuitions

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We trust our intuitions when we should rely on rational calculation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Unfortunately, marketing, preexisting beliefs, and "intuitions" – as reasonable as they may seem – have potential to lead us astray.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2024

Kahneman’s decades-long partnership with Tversky began in 1969 when the two collaborated on a paper analyzing researcher intuitions about statistical methods in their work.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2024

Artists work by intuitions, and I hope you’ll forgive my putting this one very simply: Flat painting might be a way to talk about what we have, and what we’re missing.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023

Of course, he and Asta were one being, so the intuitions were his anyway, as much as his feelings were hers.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman