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Any 'figuring out' is almost certainly going to produce an ad hoc Just-So Story.
Rationalists do not ignore their intuition. Nor do they trust it. If they don't have a rational justification for a principle, they don't assert it.
They don't negate it, either.
No, "to figure out" in such a case would mean to find evidence that you suspected might exist, but weren't sure about it.
If you are able to delay action while performing research motivated by your initial intuition, it can mean the difference between life and death. It has happened.
Finding new evidence is not "figuring out". That refers to cognitive processing, not evidence discovery.