What is a ‘hunch'?”
"Eh? It's a belief that something is so, or isn't so, without evidence.”
"I'd call a hunch the result of automatic reasoning below the conscious level on data you did not know you possessed. (Robert A. Heinlein)

What is a ‘hunch'?” "Eh? It's a belief that something is so, or isn't so, without evidence.” "I'd call a hunch the result of automatic reasoning below the conscious level on data you did not know you possessed.

Robert A. Heinlein

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