| name | intuitive-thinking |
| description | Micro-skill for recording gut feelings, hunches, anomaly signals, and "something feels off" reactions as pre-evidence hypotheses before article review, investigations, OSINT, claim audits, rhetoric audits, peer review, scientific fact classification, or belief revision. Use only as a Phase 0 hunch register; intuition may guide tests and searches but never supports a verdict. |
| version | 0.3 |
| aligned | "2026-06-05T00:00:00.000Z" |
Intuitive Thinking
Use this as a Phase 0 hunch register before a real analytical skill.
Core rule: intuition generates hypotheses; evidence carries verdicts.
When To Use
Use when a task starts from a gut feeling, hunch, suspicion, unease, pattern match, or "something feels off".
Common article-review triggers:
| Hunch | Downstream test |
|---|
| Headline feels too strong | Headline-body alignment |
| Source mix feels captured | Source independence / right of reply |
| Number feels inflated | Raw count, denominator, baseline, timeframe, absolute effect |
| Framing feels manipulative | Rhetoric, omissions, quote context |
| Story feels too neat | Alternative hypotheses, missing primaries |
| Timing feels convenient | Chronology, beneficiaries, prior drafts |
Warrant Label
(intuition — unwarranted) = a gut feeling, anomaly signal, or pattern impression. It may generate hypotheses and search leads. It is never evidence, never load-bearing, and cannot revise, refute, or establish a claim.
If the hunch later proves useful, cite the traced evidence that tested it, not the hunch itself.
Micro-Template
Use this before search, then hand off.
## Intuition Register
- **Trigger:** [what was noticed]
- **Immediate story:** [first explanation] `(intuition — unwarranted)`
- **Competing explanations:** H1 [hunch right]; H2 [ordinary explanation]; H3 [opposite-direction explanation]; H4 [missing information]
- **Disconfirmation:** [what would weaken or kill the hunch]
- **Search leads:** [primary/data/source to fetch]; [disconfirming source/query]; [strongest alternative source/query]
Routing
- Article quality, headline, sourcing, omissions ->
journalistic-article-review
- Single empirical or causal claim ->
scientific-fact-classification
- Contested event or official narrative ->
investigative-reasoning
- Source identity, funding, account, image, domain ->
osint-research
- Rhetoric or manipulation ->
fallacy-bias-and-manipulation-analysis
- Hidden assumption or definition ->
first-principles-thinking
- New hunch about a prior verdict ->
belief-revision
Self-Check
Before routing onward, ask:
- Would this hunch still be worth testing if it pointed the other way?
- Is the feeling being used as evidence, or only as a search prompt?
- Did the first story crowd out ordinary, opposite, or missing-information explanations?
