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by majormajor 616 days ago
The Wiki article you link gives an example from the 1600s of "the passions" vs "reason" so it certainly seems quite old. And when framed that way in particular has echos of "habitus" from sociology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitus_(sociology) which I will paraphrase badly as "intuition [the passions] as shaped by social structure".

But all that seems largely descriptive rather than usefully predictive and more a representation of what we don't know than what we do.