Feeling is a word that needs some explanation. For instance, one speaks of feeling when it is a matter of sentiment...but one also applies the same word to define an opinion.... Furthermore, the word may be used to express an intuition: "I had a feeling as if...".
When I use the word feeling in contrast to thinking, I refer to a judgment of value - for instance, agreeable or disagreeable, good or bad, and so on. Feeling, according to this definition, is not an emotion (which, as the word conveys, is involuntary). Feeling, as I mean it, is (like thinking) a rational (ie. ordering) function, whereas intuition is irrational (ie. perceiving) function. In so far as intuition is a "hunch", it is not a product of a voluntary act; it is rather an involuntary event, which depends upon different external or internal circumstances instead of an act of judgment. Intuition is more like a sense-perception, which is also an irrational even in so far as it depends essentially upon objective stimuli, which owe their existence to physical and not to mental causes.
These four function types correspond to the obvious means by which consciousness obtains its orientation to experience. Sensation tells you that something exists; thinking tells you what it is; feeling tells you whether it is agreeable or not; and intuition tells you whence it comes and where it is going.
