intuiting
intuiting is the present participle and gerund of intuit.
Meaning of intuit
Verb
intuit (third-person singular simple present intuits, present participle intuiting, simple past and past participle intuited)
- To know intuitively or by immediate perception.
- Accordingly ſome have been pleaſed to name the complex of the phaenomena, so far as it is intuited i.e. apprehended immediately, the ſenſual world, but ſo far as its connection is thought according to univerſal laws of understanding, the intellectual world.1797, Emmanuel Kant; James Sigismund Beck [i.e., Jakob Sigismund Beck], “The Translator’s Preface”, in The Principles of Critical Philosophy, Selected from the Works of Emmanuel Kant Member of the...
Noun
intuiting (plural intuitings)
- An instance of intuition.
- Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.2009, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition, page 194
Forms of intuiting
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Questions about intuiting
- What does intuiting mean?
- Intuiting means an instance of intuition.
- What is intuiting the present participle and gerund of?
- Intuiting is the present participle and gerund of intuit.
- What part of speech is intuiting?
- Intuiting is a noun.
- What is the plural of intuiting?
- The plural of intuiting is intuitings.
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