intuitionism
Ethics. the doctrine that moral values and duties can be discerned directly.
Metaphysics.
the doctrine that in perception external objects are given immediately, without the intervention of a representative idea.
the doctrine that knowledge rests upon axiomatic truths discerned directly.
Logic, Mathematics. the doctrine, propounded by L. E. J. Brouwer, that a mathematical object is considered to exist only if a method for constructing it can be given.
Origin of intuitionism
1Other words from intuitionism
- in·tu·i·tion·ist, noun, adjective
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How to use intuitionism in a sentence
We find him quoted with approval by Clarke, who is commonly taken to represent intuitionism in an extreme form.
The Methods of Ethics | Henry SidgwickOn this view, which I may distinguish as sthetic intuitionism, I shall have something to say hereafter.
The Methods of Ethics | Henry SidgwickThe wider of the two meanings of Intuition here distinguished is required in treating of Philosophical intuitionism.
The Methods of Ethics | Henry SidgwickDewey's criticism of intuitionism scarcely does justice to that method, whatever may be its inherent weakness.
John Dewey's logical theory | Delton Thomas HowardIt attempts thus to supplant both egoism and intuitionism by the same doctrine of the organic union between individuals.
On the Ethics of Naturalism | William Ritchie Sorley
British Dictionary definitions for intuitionism
intuitionalism
/ (ˌɪntjʊˈɪʃəˌnɪzəm) /
(in ethics)
the doctrine that there are moral truths discoverable by intuition
the doctrine that there is no single principle by which to resolve conflicts between intuited moral rules: See also deontological
philosophy the theory that general terms are used of a variety of objects in accordance with perceived similarities: Compare nominalism, Platonism
logic the doctrine that logical axioms rest on prior intuitions concerning time, negation, and provability
the theory that mathematics cannot intelligibly comprehend the properties of infinite sets, and that only what can be shown to be provable can be justifiably asserted
the doctrine that knowledge, esp of the external world, is acquired by intuition
Derived forms of intuitionism
- intuitionist or intuitionalist, noun
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