Treat Intuitions Like Perception

Everyday intuitions (e.g., 'this feels off', 'that person is creepy') function like a kind of perception: they present characters or factual appearances directly, not via explicit propositional reasoning. Seeing intuition this way makes some 'gut' reactions epistemically respectable while also clarifying when they are prone to error. — If public institutions and media stop reflexively dismissing 'vibes' as mere bias and instead evaluate them as perceptual‑style evidence, policy, legal practices, and risk communication could be recalibrated to balance experiential signals with formal data.