Maybe you already figured it out; Smith said "as should be intuitively obvious," but he talks like that.

On the other hand, it is intuitively obvious that at least for most of the passage we are inside Pemberton's consciousness.

"Sometimes things that seem intuitively obvious don't work out the way you expect."

Human rights law codifies our agreement about stopping these intuitively obvious injustices.

That is not intuitively obvious, since the death rate after three years was reduced from 10 percent to 8 percent.

To us, who have seen airplanes fly and flown in them, this may seem intuitively obvious.

So far we have taken it for granted that the distinction between ambiguity and generality is intuitively obvious.

Although this seems intuitively obvious, it goes against the grain of the Bush administration's school reforms, which focus on test scores.

Earlier authors held the result to be intuitively obvious, and requiring no proof.

It may seem intuitively obvious that feeling angry can elicit hostility toward outsiders.