Philosophy A-Level
Intuition
What Intuition means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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An immediate, direct grasp of a truth that is self-evident rather than reached by step-by-step inference.
A direct intellectual grasp of a self-evident truth, without inference from other propositions.
Topics that use Intuition
- Reason as a source of knowledge (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- A priori knowledge of existence
- Certainty and foundationalism
- Copy principle
- Empiricism
- Hume's Fork
- Leibniz and necessary truths
- Plato's theory of recollection
- Proof of the external world
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