[MD] Intuitive Reasoning?

[Case]

[Ham]
Only intuitive reasoning can arrive at such conclusions.

[Case]
This may explain a lot about your thinking, Ham. At first I thought
'intuitive reasoning' was an oxymoron.

Then I found this:

"Consider the following problem: is the Pope a bachelor?

Two approaches suggest themselves to solve this "bachelor" problem, each
producing a different answer. 

One possibility is an intuitive solution: our understanding of "bachelor"
reflects similarity relations among people who are known to be bachelors.
According to this intuitive approach, the Pope would not be seen as a
bachelor. 

Alternatively, we may represent the concept of "bachelor" as a person who
satisfies the rule, "unmarried, adult, male." Under this formal definition,
the Pope, contrary to intuition, indeed would be a bachelor."


http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nisbett/formalreas.pdf#search=%22intuitive%20
reasoning%22

This comes from a study entitled:

"Cultural Preferences for Formal versus Intuitive Reasoning"

It looks at differences in the problem solving strategies of westerners and
East Asians.