Word: intuitionism
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Such delights came less frequently as the nation's colleges moved through the storms of the '60s. Trilling spoke out bitterly against the "ideology of irrationalism" and the idea that knowledge can be attained through "intuition, inspiration, revelation." Denouncing the pressures to hire more blacks and women as...
Anna was never able to understand the ideas on which Fyodor built his novels. He once sat her down for three hours and tried to explain "The Grand Inquisitor" (from The Brothers Karamazov) to her, but the chapter completely eluded her. His works are discussed only in passing in her...
Guided largely by intuition, Founder Revson built Revlon, of which he was chairman for 44 years, into a cosmetics colossus whose name and some 4,000 products are known around the world, and are popular with women from the mass of Walgreens on up to the class of Saks Fifth...
The great paradox of modern linguistics is that while human judgments about the nature of language must be fundamentally introspective our intuitions are often misleading or simply wrong Percy is right when he says that closeness to language can be a bar to understanding it, that we think and talk...
Our intuition is that sentences like Max is easy to please and Max is eager to please are basically the same construction, differing only in meaning--and that's the way two hundred years of English grammars described them. In fact, the structures of those sentences are very different, and...