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

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

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

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

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