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
Carlyle is described as a 'transcendentalist'—a kind of qualified equivalent to intuitionist.
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Sir Leslie Stephen
But until mathematics can get on without these symbols or any substitutes the intuitionist in mathematics will continue to have his say.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
Butler thought that justice should be done though the heavens fall; the philosophical intuitionist must maintain that the danger of bringing down the heavens is never to be lost sight of.
From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton
A logician adds two and two and gets four; an intuitionist multiplies them and gets the same answer.
From Dead Giveaway by Randall Garrett
To confute intuitionists and get rid of intuitions was one main purpose of all Mill's speculations.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Sir Leslie Stephen
To some famous intuitionists this has seemed to be a pernicious doctrine.
From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton
To these intuitionists, and to the popular mind very often, the approval or disapproval of conscience is immediate, intuitive, and unerring.
From Problems of Conduct by Durant Drake
There are intuitionists of various classes, and there are sufficiently notable differences of opinion.
From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton
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
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