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Knowladge which is not the result of conscious reasoning or of immediate sense perception.

In the litereture dealing which intuition, one comesacross such exspression as immediate

feeling of certainty imagination touched with conviction a total response to some total

situation and a direct insight into the truth we may note the following possitions which

men hold regarding intuition.

1 There is an element of intuitian present in all knowladge. George Santayana usesintuition to mean out our awareness of the immediate data of consciousness. W. E.

Hocking speaks of self-knowledge as the best case for instuition. knowledge of

oneself appearsto be present as an element in all knowledge of other objects. When I

hear a whistle, in addition to hearing it. I am aware of my hearingand aware of myself

as the one who does the hearing intuition is present in the knowladge of oneself and

ones own life, and the axsioms of mathematics. It is present in our understanding of

the connections between the propositions which constitute the various steps ofan

argument. Reasoning itself depands on some connection that we grasp or fail to grasp.An intuitive element is the foundation of our recognition of the beautiful, of the moral

standard which men accept, and of religius values.

2 Intuition is the accummulation of ones part exsperience and thinking. Valid intuitionsare short cuts to the knowladge which the senses and reflective thinking would reveal.

They are the outcome of subconscious induction or deduction. Those who have had

considerable experience. In think ing and working in a field are more likely to have

good intuitions in that area of human experience. Scientific insight comes to those

who have labored persistently over scientific problems; poetic inspirations come to

those who love and the read poetry; musical inspirations come to those who devote

time and attention to these fields.

3 Instuition is a higher kind of knowledge, different in nature from that disclosed by thesenses or by the intellect. The outstanding represantive of this point of view is Henri

Bergson (1859-1941), the French philosopher. For Bergson intutition and intelegence

are pointed in opposite directions. Intellegence, or intellect, is the tool science uses to

deal with matter. It deals with things and with quantitave relations. It solidifies

whatever it touches and is incapable of dealingwith the nature of life or with duration,.

Intuition, which instinct that has become self-conscious, can lead us to the very

inwardness of life. If intuition can extend it self, it will give us the clue to vital

operations. We discover the clean vital, the vital impulse of the world,