sezgisel

Sezgisel is a Turkish adjective meaning related to intuition or based on intuition rather than formal reasoning. It is used to describe approaches, judgments, or methods that rely on gut feeling, heuristic rules, or immediate insight rather than systematic analysis. In academic and technical contexts the term often corresponds to the English word heuristic; a sezgisel yöntem or sezgisel yaklaşım describes a strategy that seeks a good solution quickly rather than the guaranteed optimum.

Etymologically, sezgisel derives from sezgi, intuition or insight, with the suffix -sel forming adjectives. The term appears across philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science to distinguish intuitive or perceptual processes from analytic ones.

In practice, phrases such as sezgisel karar verme (intuition-based decision making) or sezgisel arama (heuristic search) are common. Sezgisel methods often provide faster, scalable solutions and are valued for practicality in complex or large-scale problems, but they do not guarantee optimal outcomes, unlike analytical or exact methods. The concept is widely used in everyday language as well as in scientific discourse to describe both human cognitive processes and algorithmic strategies that prioritize efficiency over guaranteed optimality.