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

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 Veiller, Bayard

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

But he has not shown that God cannot be known by the intuitive reason.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

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