I am well aware what it means. And you need to learn what folders are on a computer and what it means to put something into them.

In other words it's not intuitive. People don't understand it in one context just because they understand it in another.

Or let me put it another way.

Nothing is intuitive, you have to learn it which renders the word in this context useless.

Eating is intuitive. I believe drinking water and defecating could also be considered intuitive.

The meaning of the word intuitive may not come to some folks via intuition, however. Merriam-Webster defines intuitive as: readily learned or understood; and intuition as: immediate apprehension or cognition.

I'm not taking a stand either way on if they're intuitive, I've been using a PC for far too long to even try to think about it.

But what you just said is the opposite of: "Folders are non-intuitive if they aren't learned"

It would have made sense if you'd said: "Folders are non-intuitive because they must be learned".

And yet you seem to understand what I am trying to say.

Fine with me.

Only because you wrote a bunch of other stuff that gave it context. Stubborn much? That statement, on it's own, says the opposite of what you meant. I don't know why you're arguing with me about it.

I am arguing with you about it because it's worth arguing about.

There is such a thing called intuition. It just doesn't transcend the way the OP claimed it would.

Intuition is something you build via experience. It allow you to navigate even things you haven't been exposed to before. As long as you understand the basic premise of the context.

The general consensus and then point of the OP was to say that understanding the metaphor is enough to make you navigate two different paradigms just because you understand one of them and use metaphors to connect them . I.e. you can use intuition from one of them in the other. This is simply wrong and is not given at all.

Which leads me to say that intuition is learned. I.e. it's not some linear concept where everything fit together, but rather it exists de facto disconnected underneath the metaphors and concepts.

A metaphor or concept is intuitive if it can be clearly understood once seen. "Without deduction or reasoning" as my dictionary puts it.

While I appreciate your comment, ThomPete's comment, perhaps better phrased as "Folders are intuitive once experienced" would generally be accepted to mean that the concept and behavior of files and folders, through a visual GUI metaphor, is generally grasped and understood (I'm not saying this is or isn't true, but it's a testable and reasonable proposition).

The visual metaphor isn't always manageable. It's not always appropriate. But for most people, the general idea of objects and containers is wired at a pretty low neural level. Enough so that I'm comfortable calling it "intuitive".

Socks and dressers are also intuitive. Doesn't mean my laundry doesn't find itself all over my room.