ethnographic study to identify some of the processes and practices which can give rise to social workers' practice-specific heuristics. Paper 4 considers the impact of the physical environment on judgment and how working spaces for social workers may be designed more effectively to support ecological rationality. 3.7 Intuition Intuition and analysis are two terms which are regularly repeated throughout this thesis. As these are also terms which are used frequently in a range of settings to represent a range of different actions and capacities, it is necessary to clarify how the terms are used in the context of this thesis. is a word commonly used to define knowing or understanding “Intuition” something without conscious reasoning. Polanyi (1967, p4) argued that we can know more than we can tell" and that pre-logical or non-deliberative forms of sense-making could be understood as the exercise of tacit knowledge. Mindful of the fact that many people disagree with Feud's concept on unconsciousness, some authors adopt this term "non-deliberative" as a less contentious synonym. Beyond the fundamental principle of this definition there are however many different ways in which intuition is conceptualised and understood. An overview of some of the most prevalent definitions is therefore a necessary starting point. as a term can be used interchangeably with and a ‘Intuition’ ‘gut feelings’ to describe a judgment ‘hunch’ that appears quickly in consciousness; whose underlying reasons we are not fully aware of, and; is strong enough to act on. (Gigerenzer 2007, p.16)
ethnographic study to identify some of the processes and practices which can give rise to social workers' practice-specific heuristics. Paper 4 considers the impact of the physical environment on judgment and how working spaces for social workers may be designed more effectively to support ecological rationality. 3.7 Intuition Intuition and analysis are two terms which are regularly repeated throughout this thesis. As these are also terms which are used frequently in a range of settings to represent a range of different actions and capacities, it is necessary to clarify how the terms are used in the context of this thesis. “Intuition” is a word commonly used to define knowing or understanding something without conscious reasoning. Polanyi (1967, p4) argued that we can know more than we can tell" and that pre-logical or non-deliberative forms of sense-making could be understood as the exercise of tacit knowledge. Mindful of the fact that many people disagree with Feud's concept on unconsciousness, some authors adopt this term "non-deliberative" as a less contentious synonym. Beyond the fundamental principle of this definition there are however many different ways in which intuition is conceptualised and understood. An overview of some of the most prevalent definitions is therefore a necessary starting point. ‘Intuition’ as a term can be used interchangeably with ‘gut feelings’ and a ‘hunch’ to describe a judgment that appears quickly in consciousness; whose underlying reasons we are not fully aware of, and; is strong enough to act on. (Gigerenzer 2007, p.16)