Noun

(en noun)

Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.

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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. [...]

A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of detecting or sensing something; discovering something that was hidden or disguised.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}

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, title=Death Walks in Eastrepps , chapter=10/6 citation , passage=“Why should Eldridge commit murder?

The finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like, mostly by means of a specific device or method.