"intuitive reasoning" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to a conclusion or decision that is made based on your own experience, knowledge, and intuition. For example: "I used intuitive reasoning to decide what direction my business should take next."
These early-emerging intuitive reasoning patterns include the essentialist intuition that species are unique and stable, as well as the intuition that any changes within species are goal directed and intentional (Keil 1994; Kelemen 1999; Gelman 2003; Mayr 1982; Medin and Atran 2004; Wellman and Gelman 1998).
Extensional vs. intuitive reasoning: The conjunction fallacy in probability judgment.
And prior research suggests that intuitive reasoning is a critical component of trusting someone.
Traditionally, intuitive reasoning is employed to arrive at the simplified system.
This debate between intuition and empiricism is as old as Plato, who thought that knowledge came from intuitive reasoning, and Aristotle, who preferred observation.
This setting fosters intuitive reasoning and political learning that help to rationalize and institutionalize existing belief bias and foster routinized behavior and policy stability (Zafonte and Sabatier, 2004).
However, our second hypothesis was that when faced with higher-risk decisions, online consumers are more likely to turn to associative (intuitive) reasoning processes.
Our reasoning was that trust matters more for bigger, riskier decisions — and prior research suggests that intuitive reasoning is a critical component of trusting someone.
24. A. Tversky and D. Kahneman, "Extensional vs. Intuitive Reasoning: The Conjunction Fallacy in Probability Judgments," Psychological Review 90 (1983): 293 315.
The findings challenged established wisdom that intuitive reasoning is typically wrong and became a basis for the growing appreciation of the usefulness of nonconscious or "fast" thinking.
Based on this intuitive reasoning, this study proposes a dynamic limited water level for flood control based on conditional probabilities of large storms.
