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

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

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

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

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

Mardochi the Jew represents the spirit of intuitive reason and understanding.

From The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Maitland, Edward