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Great Moments in Intuition: A Timeline

From Aristotle to amateur baking, here's a history of following that gut feeling.
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350 B.C.E.

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics defines wisdom as "intuitive reason combined with scientific knowledge." (We'll ignore his unwise theory that only men are capable of both.)

From the August 2011 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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