intuitive sense
collocation in Englishmeaningsofintuitiveandsense
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intuitive
adjective
uk/ɪnˈtʃuː.ɪ.tɪv/us/ɪnˈtuː.ɪ.t̬ɪv/
based on feelings rather than facts ...
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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Examplesofintuitive sense
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There is no explanation and the selection makes nointuitivesense.
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Here we changed the terminology to use the term word in a moreintuitivesense.
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But the goals endorsed in common with others are still goals we each endorse, and so are in thatintuitivesenseour individually endorsed goals.
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Some of the other factors like culpability can't produce ourintuitivesenseof the proportionality of deserved punishment.
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This way, the scientist can makeintuitivesenseof the program's behavior, and be alert to patterns and oddities.
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He does not model these standards explicitly, but relies on his readers'intuitivesenseof the meanings of the formulae with which he describes them.
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Since the factors make both statistical andintuitivesenseit was decided to use them as the dependent variables in the analysis.
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Yet it does not makeintuitivesenseto see a player as getting their turn if this happens.
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This possibility makesintuitivesense, given that gestural labels are not destined to become a prominent part of older hearing children's labelling repertoire.
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As a biologist, homeopathy madeintuitivesenseto me.
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The momentum analogy makesintuitivesense, and the evidence for its utility is increasing.
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This makesintuitivesenseif people are not selective about whom they discuss politics with, and are not choosing discussants based on political criterion.
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Note that we use 'positive' and 'negative' in theintuitivesenseso, for example, increasing civil liberty reducing infant mortality is a positive effect.
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There is a clearintuitivesensein which glide deletion can be thought to overapply, then: glide deletion appears to delete more than just glides.
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Several factor analyses were performed, rotating varying numbers of "factors" to hypothetically orthogonal structures, seeking solutions that madeintuitivesense.
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The fact that patients who see themselves as physically rather than emotionally unwell respond relatively poorly to a psychotherapy makesintuitivesense.
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As most people believe they have anintuitivesenseof the difference between right and wrong, they find it easy to deal with an issue in those terms.
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He reminds us that repose or 'vital stability' is the appearance of harmonious unity in a building and it is achieved through anintuitivesenseof proportion.
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Lauer (1995) has claimed that the dependency model makesintuitivesenseand produces better results through his experiments.
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