"intuition is thinking that you know without knowing why you do." That is not a precise definition at all, in fact it is an orthogonal concept. "Thinking that

"intuition is thinking that you know without knowing why you do." That is not a precise definition at all, in fact it is an orthogonal concept. "Thinking that you know" may be happening during intuition, but to claim that that is what intuition actually IS is just wrong. Intuition is the thought, not the thought about the thought. A more precise definition might be something like "knowing -- rightly or wrongly -- without knowing how you know."