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Proprioception vs Intuition - What's the difference?

proprioception | intuition |

As nouns the difference between proprioception and intuition

is that proprioception is the sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body while intuition is (pedantic).

proprioception

Noun

  • The sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body.
  • 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

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