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
First, man by his intuitive reason rises to some idea of the Godhead satisfying to his emotion; next, by his discursive reason, he endeavors to justify that idea to his experience in analyzing God's operations.
From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Bentwich, Norman
He declared philosophy to be the science of unconditioned being, and asserted that this was known to the soul by its intuitive reason, which is the organ of all philosophic insight.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman
But he has not shown that God cannot be known by the intuitive reason.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman
