Word: intuitionism
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In diagramming a sentence, the machine must decide about meaning by using context. Often this is difficult or impossible for the computer to do--which only means that we do it by intuition, but cannot transfer our intuition to the machine.
Conductors, like all musicians, are often branded with easy epithets that distort far more than they illuminate. Detractors of Toscanini claim, "He is too fast, too harsh--though great at Verdi," which ignores the intuition behind his intensity. Klemperer is overly eulogzed as "the Olympian, interpreter of the classics." And...
What he discovered, said Matisse, was "something that was always the same and that, at first glance, I thought to be monotonous repetition. It was the mark of my personality. I made an effort to develop this personality by counting above all on my intuition. I said to myself: '...
The amount of information disclosed by a typical European corporation in its annual report to the stockholders is, by U.S. standards, hardly enough to cover the head of a pin. Final profit or loss figures are given-without explanation about how they were arrived at. Such basic items as true...
But Ardery did not have to rely on intuition, an interview or two or a few chance remarks to discover what Niemans of the past and present have chosen to do. He could easily have read the reports filed by past Fellows at the end of their stay at Harvard...