Sentence examples for underlying intuition from inspiring English sources

Despite the difficulty in definition, many philosophers believe that there is a broadly shared underlying intuition about what consciousness is.

This is a helpful way of capturing the underlying intuition expressed by the rule of strict liability.

The underlying intuition is that the merely derived beliefs are not worth retaining for their own sake.

This is a useful way of capturing the underlying intuition expressed by the rule of fault liability.

The underlying intuition here is that assessments of responsibility change with changes in an agent's social and epistemic environment.

The underlying intuition is that there is a general trend that downtown area of city has more population than suburbs.

In The Righteous Mind he says, yes, moral decisions are influenced by our intentional decision-making processes – the rational weighing up of alternatives, the assessment of right and wrong – but that this decision-making is really driven by underlying intuitions.

The representation of appearance properties is supposed to explain the phenomenal sameness of certain experiences with inverted qualia; whereas the representation of color properties is supposed to underlie intuitions about the veridicality of the experiences.

Sripada thinks that the proper role of experimental investigations of moral intuitions is not to identify the mechanisms underlying moral intuitions.

Appeal to reason's boss: the underlying moral intuitions whose conclusions reason defends.

For both Spencer and Sidgwick, utilitarian practical reasoning exposes, refines and systematizes our underlying moral intuitions, which have thus far evolved in spite of their under-appreciated utility.