Categorial intuition is an advance upon intentionality in that not only are phenomena present to us in consciousness, but more is present in these phenomena than meets the eye. The phenomena have greater richness and depth than they seem to have at first.
Categorial intuition is the notion that every perception consists of layers buried within layers, all of them lying in the perception from the start, although they are not evident to us without later analysis.
Categorial intuition is he idea that, for example, in any perception of green, table, zebra, or even the word “and,” being is always silently present in the background as the deepest of all categories.