What type of thought begins with a prior belief, heuristic, or common assumption, rather than a logical premise?

The intuitive thought begins with a prior belief, heuristic, or common assumption, rather than a logical premise.
This type of thought that arises from an emotion or a hunch, beyond rational explanation and is influenced by past experiences and cultural assumptions.
 It is a sub-stage of the Piaget's Preoperational cognitive development stage.

Somes tribes thought of them as a greater being