Timeline for Meaning of "give someone intuition"
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| Oct 9, 2011 at 12:20 | comment | added | David Schwartz | I think it can mean two different things. I can mean to give someone a piece of information one came upon by intuition or it can mean to help another person obtain an intuitive understanding. For example, if we were discussing a complex subject and I had a simple analogy that you already understood, I might present the analogy to help give you a more intuitive understanding. | |
| Oct 9, 2011 at 0:11 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I think in the "academic" context it's just shorthand for "give (help to acquire) an intuitive understanding of some specific logical/mathematical process". In some cases (quantum theory?) no such understanding is possible, even to experts who routinely do the sums and make stuff that works. But most of us can intuitively understand Pythagoras' theorem if someone draws it out on paper the right way (that one does it for me). So a person can "give" you that "intuition". | |
| Oct 8, 2011 at 22:10 | comment | added | narx | @GEdgar I completely agree; I thought I made that clear in the last sentence. | |
| Oct 8, 2011 at 21:27 | comment | added | GEdgar | This meaning of intuition is used in mathematics (and perhaps other technical fields of study). It does not seem to match any of the conventional meanings of the word intuition. | |
| Oct 8, 2011 at 20:02 | vote | accept | zbstof | ||
| Oct 8, 2011 at 19:37 | history | answered | narx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
