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

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

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

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

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

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