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
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
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
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
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
