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IntuitionIntuition means
Intuition is one source of empirical knowledge and common sense. A situation which is or appears to be true but violates our intuition is called a paradox (a paradox can also be a logical self-contradiction). An example of this is the Birthday paradox. Intuition is one of the four axes of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The verb is to intuit. If you had had as much experience in
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attributed to any person among several, equally well."
Norton eyed us keenly, and shook his head. "You may be right," he
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"Speaking of weapons," broke in Kennedy, "you have had no further
he returned, "that I am almost afraid to have an opinion. I knew
have dreamed that that blade was poisoned?"
"You are lucky not to have scratched yourself with it by accident
longer. It was only lately that I had leisure to study it."
"You knew that it might offer some clue to the hidden treasure of
the inscriptions on it said?"
"Yes," returned Norton, "I had heard the rumours about it. But
paid much more attention to it than you might have done if some
Kidd. I must confess that only when the thing was stolen did I
in it. Now it is too late to find out. From the moment when I
about it than you have found out. It is all like a dream to me. I
ethnological specimen could have played so important a part in the
remarkable than that. It has disappeared without leaving a trace,
look for its reappearance, I suppose, in the curio shops. For to-
But, now that you have unearthed its use against Mendoza--and in
happen to it. No, we must look elsewhere."
"I thought I would tell you," concluded Kennedy, rising to go.
occur to you."
"Perhaps," said Norton doubtfully. "But I haven't your brilliant
on you, in that, not you on me."
We left Norton, apparently now more at sea than ever. At. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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