Intuitive belief, intuitive judgment and intuitive knowledge are qualities due to direct perception, the result of inward consciousness. Intuition may be mystical, perceptional, intellectual or moral. We may have mystical visions, spiritual perception and direct intellectual apprehension. Hexiology is the science of habits. A habit is a tendency to perform the same spontaneous action under similar circumstances.
Habit applies to individuals, instinct to ancestors.
Habits acquired through our ancestors are known as instinct. Organic habits may be acquired by the physical organism during the life of an individual or of a race. The system of bodily processes of the physiological organism has been acquired through past generations. Constant practice, frequent repetition, habitual custom, confirms habit until it becomes a function. Mental or organic habits are acquired through the education of the nervous system.