Word: intuitionism
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Such prudence may be well advised. Freud was not the first to postulate the unconscious; the concept has a long intellectual ancestry. Nor did Freud ever prove, in empirical terms that scientists would accept, the existence of the unconscious. But Jonathan Winson, professor emeritus of neurosciences at Rockefeller University in...
Humans are very good at combining both methods, and can carry out many mental calculations in parallel and at incredibly high speeds. Computers, in contrast, lack intuition and a feel for the game and are forced to rely heavily on their forte of fast searching and storing large amount of...
How was this possible? Because, say the professionals, deciphering glyphs depends as much on intuition and instinct as it does on knowledge of a given writing system. Insight can strike like lightning. Says Schele, now an art historian at the University of Texas at Austin: "These moments of clarity are...
All intuition and tactics, Harriman has no fixed public philosophy or agenda. She appeals to harried politicians because she still believes in the old ideals that Churchill taught her. Postwar Paris excited her because she felt a new world being formed there, at the Marshall Plan headquarters and NATO. Her...
As an example, Finnegan, 40, offers her intuition throughout her life that she would never have children. When she discovered her star chart had "Saturn moving backwards in the sky in the fifth House," which meant that she was extremely unlikely to become a parent, her belief in astrology was...