##  [Intuition Pump](/index.php/intuition-pump) 

  ##  [Intuition Pump](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/intuition-pump-0) 

  

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**Humanities & Arts Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

A rhetorical or imaginative device—often resembling a thought experiment—constructed to elicit, probe, or shift a person's intuitive judgments about a philosophical scenario by foregrounding particular features and downplaying others.