Word: intuitionism
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He does not speak Chinese and he is averse to bureaucratic interpreters; so Koningsberger had to rely heavily on his literary intuition and imagination. He had never visited pre-Communist China and did not go to Taiwan, but he is sure that China under Chiang Kai-shek was an abominable...
Suddenly, gratuitously, Josef rapes and murders a little neighbor girl. Celestine, having quit that day, is waiting for a train to Paris when she hears of the atrocity, mysterious to the populace but transparent to her intuition.
Woyzeclc, by Georg Buechner, has cast a deepening shadow across 130 years and a thousand writers. It is as if this young, 19th century German with a mind like burning phosphorus and a heart like an open grave had had an apocalyptic dramatic vision of the 20th century, with its...
Durer also applied his genius as a draughtsman and his innate sense of order to the achievements of the Italian Renaissance masters. He comprehended their rational approach and soon mastered their clarity and formal expression. While investigating the problems of perspective and the antique canons of proportion, Durer tried to...
When the machine consults this dictionary and flashes the choices, it is doing what it can do best: looking things up in a reference and displaying them. And the observer is doing what man does best: using his intuition.