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At this point a mathematician might step in and say that you all need to define your terms. You're basing your arguments on two subtly different definitions of the word "intuition."


The differences aren't subtle. I'm using the run-of-the-mill definition you might find in a dictionary[1], what other definition could you possibly be using?

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intuition


From that I would choose 2.c, with the emphasis on evident

> the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference

There is such a thing as developing your intuition.

I think your meanings are not qualitatively different.




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