"Instinctive sense" refers to a natural and automatic feeling or understanding about something, without needing to think or learn about it. Full definition
What the French do have is a marvelously instinctive sense of color. (bombmagazine.org)
Still, that instinctive sense of what it takes to connect with a mass audience — so often snobbily dismissed as «middlebrow» — is precisely what distinguishes Spielberg as an artist, and it allows «The Post» to go for broke with such unselfconscious energy, feeling and, every so often, sheer beauty. (washingtonpost.com)
and oh consultofactus - humans are born with an instinctive sense of right and wrong, how did you assume that there is no right or wrong «if» the atheist world view is true? (religion.blogs.cnn.com)