Intuition — Direct, immediate knowledge without the mediation of inference or concept. For Kant, sensible intuition (space and time) provides the raw material that the understanding organizes conceptually. For Bergson, philosophical intuition is a form of sympathy with the object that grasps real duration (durée), inaccessible to the analytical intellect. For Husserl, eidetic intuition apprehends universal essences from particular exemplars.
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