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
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 Sir John Alexander Hammerton
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 Norman Bentwich
For some intuitive reason, mysterious to herself, she did not care to meet the man's eyes at that moment.
From Within the Law by Bayard Veiller
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 Henry Nelson Coleridge
