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Intuition is the immediate awareness of truth without the benefit of logic or mental reasoning.  In a religious sense, it is the power of insight without conscious reasoning, typically attributed to a momentary divine or angelic gift.

'''Intuition''' is the immediate awareness of truth without the benefit of logic or mental reasoning.  In a religious sense, it is the power of insight without conscious reasoning, typically attributed to a momentary divine or angelic gift.

Philosophically, it is an immensely problematic concept as it requires a special mental faculty of intuition, with no readily describable mechanism of causation for the knowledge thus aquired. Most attempts to preserve the objective truth of moral statements fall back on a form of intuitionism: the statement "Kindness is better than cruelty," for example, has massive intuitive appeal, even though the concepts within it defy meaningful empirical analysis.

Philosophically, it is an immenselcy problematic concept as it requires a special mental faculty of intuition, with no readily describable mechanism of causation for the knowledge thus aquired. Most attempts to preserve the objective truth of moral statements fall back on a form of intuitionism: the statement "Kindness is better than cruelty," for example, has massive intuitive appeal, even though the concepts within it defy meaningful empirical analysis.

As [[Bertrand Russell]] put it: "I cannot see how to refute the arguments for the subjectivity of ethical values, but I find myself incapable of believing that all that is wrong with wanton cruelty is that I don't like it." <ref>Philosophy, 1960, "Notes on Philosophy" http://uk.encarta.msn.com/quote_1861989747/Ethics_I_cannot_see_how_to_refute_the_arguments_for_the.html</ref>

As [[Bertrand Russell]] put it: "I cannot see how to refute the arguments for the subjectivity of ethical values, but I find myself incapable of believing that all that is wrong with wanton cruelty is that I don't like it." <ref>Philosophy, 1960, "Notes on Philosophy" http://uk.encarta.msn.com/quote_1861989747/Ethics_I_cannot_see_how_to_refute_the_arguments_for_the.html</ref>