intuitive reason

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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

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

Now they applied to their appetites, now to their passions, now to their fancy, now to the understanding, and lastly, to the intuitive reason again.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

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

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