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Intuition vs Innate - What's the difference?

intuition | innate |

As a noun intuition

is (pedantic).

As an adjective innate is

inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

As a verb innate is

to cause to exist; to call into being.

intuition

Alternative forms

* (pedantic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
  • *
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * intuitional * intuitionism * intuitionist * intuitionistic * intuitive * intuit

    References

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    innate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.
  • Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See a priori, intuitive.
  • * South
  • There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil.
  • * John Locke
  • how men may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions
  • (botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.
  • (Gray)

    Usage notes

    * Nouns often used with "innate": knowledge, idea, immunity, etc.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * innateness

    Verb

  • To cause to exist; to call into being.
  • References

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    Anagrams

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