Knowledge of anything important will require more effort than the proponents of intuition or faith require from us. No special pleading. One should not apply standards of evidence for one's own cherished beliefs that are weaker than those one uses to judge the beliefs of others. Equally, we should not apply low standards to those beliefs of our own that we really care about, and higher standards to our beliefs about things we don't care about as much. An appeal to faith constitutes special pleading, in that faith is just belief in the absence of evidence.
Intuition is also a case of special pleading.
You cannot trace it to a perception, nor can you call up the chain of reasoning to which you appealed. So, you have nothing that can serve as a justification for your belief. Don't jump on the nearest bandwagon. Remember that it is much more important to examine an idea than to expound upon it, and that the first person in the group to state an idea won't have the last word on it if the idea is worth anything. Of course, as educators, this is a lesson we cannot impart to our students without hypocrisy when we ourselves latch onto new fads in education without asking whether we need a new name for what we have been doing all along or whether they are as appropriate for our own discipline as it is for that of the person who has been seconded to give the seminar you are attending.