Intuition vs Nous - What's the difference?
intuition | nous |
Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
*
A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
(philosophy) The mind or intellect, reason, both rational and emotional
* 1900 , Gilbert Keith Chesterton,
In Neoplatonism, the divine reason, regarded as first divine emanation.
Common sense; practical intelligence.
As nouns the difference between intuition and nous
is that intuition is (pedantic) while nous is (philosophy) the mind or intellect, reason, both rational and emotional.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. [...]
Derived terms
* intuitional * intuitionism * intuitionist * intuitionistic * intuitive * intuitReferences
* * ----nous
English
Noun
- I feel the will to roam, to learn
- By test, experience, nous ,
- That fire is hot and ocean deep,
- And wolves carnivorous.