Here the meaning of Intuition is extended
to cover perception andreasoning
Conception—having
mental content—is perception and reasoning. Then:
Intuition
is the ‘faculty of conception’ or, in modern terms, ‘the
ability to have conceptions’
There is a narrower perhaps
more common sense in which conception is—roughly—reasoning. The narrative
makes informal use of this meaning. However the formal developments employ
the broader meaning