Sentence examples for ancient intuition from inspiring English sources

Neighborhood system formalized the ancient intuition, infinitesimals, which led to the invention of calculus, topology and non-standard analysis.

It is a core ancient intuition that, if we cannot identify an impression as true, we should hold back from making a truth-claim, from believing anything, on the basis of it.

HarperCollins said that the book, "Harmony," would encourage readers facing climate change, economic decline and other problems "to restore the lost balance between Man and Nature and to follow a more philosophical path which reconnects humankind with ancient wisdom and intuition".

What lay beyond the horizon were the astonishing empirical observations and experimental proofs of the intuitions of ancient atomism.

In this respect, Augustine is still closer to ancient than to modern intuitions.

Against the inner stasis of these two worlds, Freyn offers his ancient insight the redemptive anarchies of intuition.

The ancient system, which he calls moral intuition, is based on the emotion-laden moral behaviors that evolved before the development of language.

Yet the ancients seem to have had this intuition.

Usually practitioners articulated an intuition that debates about the ancients were meaningless, "to the opinions of the ancients on contagion, we do not think them of much value," and asserted the value of empiric evidence: "we never, indeed, could see the very great importance of referring back to the ancients for evidence of that which passes before our own eyes".

The Japanese from ancient times have valued emotional and aesthetic intuitions in expressing and appreciating their religious experiences.

According to the book's publicity material, the author "draws upon intuition, practical career experience, and the ancient system of numerology to help people identify their ideal career and how to make it happen".