intuitionist
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To an intuitionist, it would not be enough for me to tell you my proof showed that there must be some number with a particular property; they would want me to produce the number itself.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 27, 2018
But a logician, faced with three twos, gets six—an intuitionist gets eight.
From Dead Giveaway by Randall Garrett
Indian thought has little sympathy with the question whether morality is utilitarian or intuitionist, whether we do good to benefit ourselves or whether certain acts and states are intrinsically good.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot
It is very interesting to note that one of our best critics of intuitionism, Hemy Sidgwick, was himself an intuitionist.
From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton
The intuitionist takes his belief as a brute fact, unrelated to objective conditions.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
The intuitionists may have over-estimated the original endowment of the mind, but it must be admitted with them that the mind which approaches the moral situation empty of concepts cannot make moral decisions.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
There are intuitionists of various classes, and there are sufficiently notable differences of opinion.
From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton
And it is admitted by moralists of the derivative school and by some intuitionists, that the standard of morality has risen since an early period in the history of man.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
The champions of the opposite view are the intuitionists proper—such men as Kant, Reid, Price, even Sidgwick.
From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton
A word may be devoted to the simple refusal of intuitionists to give an account of Truth on the ground that it is 'indefinable.'
From Pragmatism by D. L. Murray
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