Intuition and creativity

The article analyses modern approaches to the role of intuition as an important cognitive tool of creative processes; it considers the definition of «intuition» by the leading Russian philosophers and psychologists. Special attention is given to abstract-logical and spatial-figurative types of thinking. The article also touches upon the problem of correlation between discursive (logical) and illogical in the learning process. It stresses the role of intuition in scientific and artistic creativity. It is concluded that intuition is a kind of overcoming sensual and rational levels in the cognition process, and thus, it is its highest level or one of the highest levels.