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[โ€“] Lizardking27 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What you grew up with =/= what is intuitive.

That is not what intuitive means. You're talking about what's "familiar".

Familiarity is subjective. Intuitiveness is objective.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If we want to go that road, intuition is according to Wikipedia:

Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge, without recourse to conscious reasoning or needing an explanation.[2][3] Different fields use the word "intuition" in very different ways, including but not limited to: direct access to unconscious knowledge; unconscious cognition; gut feelings; inner sensing; inner insight to unconscious pattern-recognition; and the ability to understand something instinctively, without any need for conscious reasoning.[4][5] Intuitive knowledge tends to be approximate.[6]

Since every temperature system needs an explanation, namely the reference points, no system is or even can be intuitive per this definition.