Intuition vs Contemplation - What's the difference?
intuition | contemplation |
Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
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A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.
Holy meditation.
The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.
As nouns the difference between intuition and contemplation
is that intuition is (pedantic) while contemplation is the act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.intuition
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(wikipedia intuition)Alternative forms
* (pedantic)Noun
(en noun)- The native speaker's grammatical competence is reflected in two types of
intuition'' which speakers have about their native language(s) — (i) intuitions'''
about sentence ''well-formedness'', and (ii) '''intuitions about sentence ''structure''.
The word ''intuition'' is used here in a technical sense which has become stand-
ardised in Linguistics: by saying that a native speaker has ''intuitions'' about the
well-formedness and structure of sentences, all we are saying is that he has the
ability to make ''judgments about whether a given sentence is well-formed or
not, and about whether it has a particular structure or not. [...]