What's the difference between intuition and transcendentalist?

Intuition


Definition:

  • (n.) A looking after; a regard to.
  • (n.) Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; -- distinguished from "mediate" knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension.
  • (n.) Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The proposition put forward in this paper is that standards of nursing practice can only be assured if the profession is able to find ways of responding to the intuitions and gut reactions of its practitioners.
  • (2) …" Platt: "Everything was intuitive, the way I met and hit the ball and then dropping to my knees.
  • (3) Intuitively, weight lost should be determined by the difference between the total energy consumed and the total energy expended.
  • (4) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.
  • (5) What's more, she said several times, her intuition told her she was on the right path.
  • (6) Scale items that differed from the raters' intuition tended to be omitted more than others.
  • (7) In the process, however, we forgot about Huxley's intuition.
  • (8) The analysis of the relation of time and speed led Piaget to conclude that the time-speed confusion characterizing the intuitive stage undergoes development.
  • (9) Humanism is centred upon the agency of human individuality and subjective intuition, rather than on received ideas and authority.
  • (10) Essential traits of this personality are an independent mind capable of liberating itself from dogmatic tenets universally accepted by the scientific community; the capacity and courage to look at things from a new angle; powers of combination, intuition and imagination; feu sacré and perseverance--in short, intellectual as well as moral qualities.
  • (11) The doubts over what some see as Miliband's lack of presentational skills and "wonkiness" have, in part, been stilled by his flashes of courage and intuitive accord with the public mood – on Libor, on predatory capitalism, on Murdoch.
  • (12) A phenomenological approach permits to confirm the intuition of language in showing that the living experience of anguish is different from the one of anxiety.
  • (13) This controversy should be resolved in the light of fact, not intuition.
  • (14) The idea that huge, intractable social issues such as sexism and racism could be affected in such simple ways had a powerful intuitive appeal, and hinted at the possibility of equally simple, elegant solutions.
  • (15) It prevents him from attending to the slight promptings of his subconscious, and when these emotions and intuitions are not amplified by being brought into focus, he loses a sense of himself.
  • (16) Then it happened again … and again … and then we realised it was worldwide and curiously, and counter-intuitively, we calmed down.
  • (17) On intuitive grounds, many have felt that Hamilton's Rule, br greater than c, should describe the evolution of reciprocal altruism and "green beard" genes.
  • (18) If this ability has been considered only as an artful and intuitive process neither subjected to theoretical analysis nor to be captured in a formal quantitative model, now things have changed to such an extent that it becomes broadly shared that a science of medical decision making can be reasonably founded and this threefold: 1) Upon a formulated logic, 2) The probability theory, and 3) A value theory.
  • (19) (3) Intuitive judgments can be categorized by several, distinctive propositional beliefs from which the judgments are apparently derived.
  • (20) Decisions concerning the indications for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions must not be made by intuition but by professionally balancing the influencing factors such as psycho-social variables or marked deficits in mental, motor or sensory areas of the child's development.

Transcendentalist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who believes in transcendentalism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He sounds, as it were, the fatal bottom of our organic existence, and yet claims not merely to accept the universe, as another Transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller, put it, but to rejoice in it.
  • (2) Under the Transcendentalistic category were classified holistic, humanistic, mystic and eastern ideas.
  • (3) This model does not contain either the contradictions nor polarizations of the positivistic versus transcendentalistic frameworks of thought.
  • (4) The second stream is that of the austere transcendentalists of the arthouse – Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer – who, recognising the over-abundant, material “fallen” nature of the medium, pursue an aesthetic of scarcity, sparseness, abnegation.
  • (5) Two main categories, namely Positivistic and Transcendentalistic, frameworks of thought were used.
  • (6) Thoreau was 27 when he took up residence in the cabin by Walden Pond; he had graduated from Harvard 19th in his class, tried teaching, helped his father in the family pencil business, did local odd jobs for a dollar a day, lived with the Emersons for two years as handyman and gardener, left Long Island after a brief spell of tutoring and testing the literary market, and, despite Emerson's sponsorship and a few poems and essays in the Transcendentalist quarterly The Dial, had made no mark.
  • (7) Unlike most Transcendentalists, he could do things - tend garden and make home repairs for Emerson, or actualise with real carpentry Bronson Alcott's fanciful vision of a summerhouse.
  • (8) Imbibing Idealism from Emerson, Thoreau soaked himself in Nature's great metaphor, and became a scientist of sorts - "a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot", he later called himself - and an autobiographer.
  • (9) Meanwhile, in untamed America, the origins of Woodstock could be traced back to the transcendentalist proto-hippies of New England's Fruitlands in the 1840s, who espoused peace and love and militant veganism, down to declining to read at night because it meant burning whale oil.
  • (10) Before they married, in 1842, there was another break-out on Hawthorne's part when he invested $1,500 in the Transcendentalist-socialist commune of Brook Farm at West Roxbury, just outside Boston.

Words possibly related to "transcendentalist"