Intuition vs Hunches - What's the difference?
intuition | hunches |
Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
*
A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
As nouns the difference between intuition and hunches
is that intuition is (pedantic) while hunches is .As a verb hunches is
(hunch).intuition
English
(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. [...]