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

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

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

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