Proprioception vs Intuition - What's the difference?
proprioception | intuition |
The sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body.
Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
*
A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
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
English
(wikipedia proprioception)Noun
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. [...]