On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 03:52:36AM -0700, Paul McGuire wrote: > > It is surprising how many times we > > think things are "intuitive" when we really mean they are "familiar". > > Of course, just as I was typing my response, Steve D'Aprano beat me to > the punch.
Intuition means "The power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference." Very naturally, things which behave in a familiar manner are intuitive. Familiar and intuitive are very closely tied. Correspondingly, when things look like something familiar, but behave differently, they are naturally unintuitive. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
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