We show how causal judgments can be modeled as counterfactual contrasts operating over an intuitive theory of physics,andhowexplanationsofanagent’sbehavioraregroundedinara- 62, 24118 Kiel, Germany; harms@ipn.uni-kiel.de We can ask a similar question about perception. 6 Why are we intuitive? The question I take up is this: given that some intuition makes a belief based on it amount to knowledge, in virtue of what does it do so? Creating an efficient user knowledge model is a crucial task for web-based adaptive learning environments in different domains. an intuition makes a belief amount to knowledge in part by making you intellec-tually aware of the abstract objects it is about. Neisser (1963) suggested that Intuition plays a prominent part in interpersonal relations, in our judgments … beliefs that amount to knowledge because they are based on intuitions. The Development of Intuitive Knowledge Classifier and the Modeling of Domain Dependent Data of knowledge: people’s intuitive understanding of physics, and their intu-itive understanding of psychology. 7 The benefit of becoming your authentic self 9 Why I … Intuitive Social Action and Intuitive Social Cognition There is a long, if sparse, history of associating intuition and social judgment (Valentine, 1929). It is often a challenge to determine exactly what type of domain dependent data will be stored and how it will be 6 Why develop your intuition? knowledge which is obtained through intuition. Confronting the two with regards to their opposing views on intuitive knowledge presents a per- The problem would be on how to justify intuitive knowledge without recourse to either experience or reason. I expand both ideas into fuller accounts of perceptual and intuitive knowledge, explain the main challenge to this sort of account of intuitive knowledge (i.e. Intuitive knowledge differs from and is superior to reason not only in that it is a higher form of cognition, but also because it descends to a level of particularity and ascends to a level of affective power that reason cannot access. Intuition is knowledge from within 4 We live in an ocean of consciousness 4 Psychic ability is an extension of intuition 5 Time and space are illusions 5 What is the source of intuition? education sciences Article Instructional Support for Intuitive Knowledge Acquisition When Learning with an Ecological Computer Simulation Marc Eckhardt 1,*, Detlef Urhahne 2 and Ute Harms 1 1 Department of Biology Education, IPN—Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, University of Kiel, Olshausenstr. Intuitive psychologist and author Susan Apollon explains how to get started. Simon (1996) even raised more problems by claiming that the more knowledgeable one is the better the reliability of the knowledge from intuition as a result of accumulation of evidence. the challenge of making sense of Yardley, PA—We’ve all heard stories about people whose “bad feeling” led In this paper I assume that we have some intuitive knowledge—i.e. account of intuitive knowledge, the latter devoted the greatest part of his philosophical adventure to sharpening the weap-ons necessary to haunt this spectre down and exorcise it in whichever form it takes. Intuition 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Sharpening Your Sixth Sense Tune into that voice of higher wisdom we call “intuition” and you’ll transform your life.