{Intuition and Intellect [continued]}[11th March 1977]

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Intuition has a bad reputation, being (often justifiably) associated with guessing, jumping to conclusions, superstitious thought, and other apparently unreliable manifestations.

But it need not be so. The key lies in the realisation that the intuitive process is not magic – whatever it may be or do. It can be developed and used like other faculties. In particular it can most usefully co-operate with the conscious analytical process. There is some evidence to suggest that the greatest innovative minds in various fields – e.g. scientific research, legal practice, and literature – have each found their own balance and framework for co-operation between at least these two faculties, for the purpose of their art. Simple examples might be the use of conscious analysis to check, so far as it may, the conclusions of intuition in creative planning; and the use of intuition to present a coherent pattern of relevant factors comprehensible to conscious analysis in legal practice. (For example, it is always easier consciously to grasp large numbers of variables when they are linked in a pattern than when they are not.)

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