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title: Intuition
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# Intuition

> [**intuition**](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intuition)
> is the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition
> without evident rational thought and inference.

Intuition is the sensation one acquires with subject experience
that answers questions that the host can not.

The subconscious can recall information the conscious mind has forgotten.
The conscious mind understands concepts abstractly

Intuition is valuable, but is often given precedent over logic.
It is not special, and is subject to the same follies as conventional logic.
