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intuitionism

n.

1. the belief that knowledge is obtained primarily by means of intuition.

2. the tendency of people to prefer to think, reason, and remember by processing inexact memory representations rather than by working logically from exact representations. See fuzzy trace theory. [proposed by U.S. psychologists Charles Brainerd (1944–  ) and Valerie Reyna (1955–  )]

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node of Ranvier

node of Ranvier

any of successive regularly spaced gaps in the myelin sheath surrounding an axon. The gaps permit the exchange of ions across the plasma membrane at those points, allowing the nerve impulse to leap from one node to the next in so-called saltatory conduction along the axon. [Louis A. Ranvier (1835–1922), French pathologist]