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Re:The Science of the Benefits of Religion by MisterBastahrd on Sunday September 26, 2021 @10:09PM (#28666418)
Yes, which isn't intuition. Intuition is when you have a correct feeling about something even though you have no knowledge of the situation.
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Re:The Science of the Benefits of Religion by commoner on Sunday September 26, 2021 @10:52PM (#28666618)
That's too strict of a definition, in my opinion, and I don't understand how conditioning is related to the crying baby example. Intuition can produce incorrect judgments and doesn't need the person to be clueless. Here's a dictionary definition:

> (knowledge from) an ability to understand or know something immediately based on your feelings rather than facts

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/intui...

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Re:The Science of the Benefits of Religion by MisterBastahrd on Monday September 27, 2021 @12:42PM (#28672934)
No, it really isn't, not unless you have alternative definitions for "understand" or "know."
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Re:The Science of the Benefits of Religion by commoner on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @12:00AM (#28679181)
It's trivial to find examples of intuition being incorrect. The APA has a cover story on this:

https://www.apa.org/monitor/mar05/misfires

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