Rigour and Intuition

Rigour and grounded theory research.

BACKGROUND Grounded theory methodology is a suitable qualitative research approach for clinical inquiry into nursing practice, leading to theory development in nursing. Given the variations in, and subjectivity attached to, the manner in which qualitative research is carried out, it is important for researchers to explain the process of how a theory about a nursing phenomenon was generated. Sim...

Religious Experience and Mystical Intuition Structurally Compared

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Intuition and the Axiomatic Method Intuition and the Axiomatic Method

Interval computations, rigour and non-rigour in deterministic continuous global optimization

Deterministic branch and bound methods for the solution of general nonlinear programs have become increasingly popular during the last decade or two, with increasing computer speed, algorithmic improvements, and multiprocessors. There are presently several commercial packages. Although such packages are based on exhaustive search, not all of them rigorously take account of roundoff error, singu...

Intuition, reason, and metacognition.

Dual Process Theories (DPT) of reasoning posit that judgments are mediated by both fast, automatic processes and more deliberate, analytic ones. A critical, but unanswered question concerns the issue of monitoring and control: When do reasoners rely on the first, intuitive output and when do they engage more effortful thinking? We hypothesised that initial, intuitive answers are accompanied by ...