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

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

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

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

This is a truth perceived at once by the intuitive reason, independently of experience.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson