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Intuition refers to a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling
rather than conscious reasoning1. What many express as being gut feeling, intuition
is the inner belief of someone that lies in the unconscious realm of understanding;
defined by a collection of impulses and subconscious processes, built on past and
present experiences. Intuition shares its roots with the Latin word, intueri which is
roughly translated as to look inside or to contemplate2. Intuition does not abide by
any reason, logic or statistical data. Why then, do we make so many intuitive
decisions everyday? And more importantly, how reliable are these gut impulses?
Delving deep into the area of natural sciences and mathematics, we find that logic
plays a more crucial role in providing explanations. All the key theories and principles
only thrive when backed up by logical evidence. And while these theories may
sometimes be against the voice of intuition, they still flourish because they are
inherently concrete and mathematically irrefutable. Albert Einsteins3 Theory of
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Source: Oxford Dictionary<http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/logic>
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