What is the difference between intuition and an educated guess?

Steffan, know your question is one of the most important a person could ask. It refers to two of the four essential qualities in a real science. No coincidence, at this point, it seems, there have been more than 100 tries at this. Why so many? And why are you asking me this question so late in the game? Hopefully, we’re about to find out.

To begin with, while logic, word skills, and common sense can, at times, do a fair job at defining ideas this meta, almost all definitions based on these kinds of things fail to transfer well to the real world. To see this as true, try to scientifically prove something is or isn’t based on intuition, or on an educated guess. I guarantee, no matter how long you try, your attempts will result in the same kinds of vague, sometimes well-written, but nebulous outcomes as have been already offered.

Fortunately there is a way to define real world things scientifically and accurately. By using the little known math called, Logical Geometry. Unfortunately, describing this math in detail would take far to long. I literally wrote an entire book about it in 2016.

What I can do, however, is point you to the essence of these two things; the two answers. And to arrive at these answers, all you need do is boil each thing down to its sine quo non; to the thing without which this thing wouldn’t be this thing.

Amazingly, when you do this, you find, it takes only two words to define each thing.

Intuition (intuitive science / an educated hunch)?

Invisible change.

If it isn’t both of these things, then it isn’t intuition.

An educated guess (rational science / a hypothesis)?

Invisible unchange.

If a thing isn’t invisible and unchanging, then it isn’t an educated guess.

Please realize, that for this pair to be scientifically valid, it requires two more definitions to complete the logically geometric set.

The first of these two defines Scientific experiments (empirical science).

Visible change.

If a thing isn’t visible and changing, it isn’t a scientific experiment.

And the last of the four?

The heart of any scientific endeavor; Facts (material science).

Visible unchange.

If a thing isn’t visible and unchanging, then it isn’t a fact.

Now in case you’re skeptical mind is violently dismissing all this, I’ve placed the entire Logically Geometric map below. Please note, this map perfectly defines what each thing is AND what each thing is not. Together, these four things cover tall possible things in science. And everything in this map emerges in a single, logical sequence, all beginning from the two original questions. Thus nothing is ad hoc.

[FYI, the Old Science (single point science) can’t even come close to doing this.]

And thanks again, Steffan, for asking me.