intuitionist

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in⋅tu⋅i⋅tion⋅ism

[in-too-ish-uh-niz-uh

m, -tyoo-]

–noun

1.	Ethics. the doctrine that moral values and duties can be discerned directly.

Metaphysics.

a.	the doctrine that in perception external objects are given immediately, without the intervention of a representative idea.

b.	the doctrine that knowledge rests upon axiomatic truths discerned directly.

3.	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:
1840–50; intuition + -ism

Related forms:

in⋅tu⋅i⋅tion⋅ist, noun, adjective

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in·tu·i·tion·ism (ĭn'tōō-ĭsh'ə-nĭz'əm, -tyōō-)

n. Philosophy

The theory that truth or certain truths are known by intuition rather than reason.
The theory that external objects of perception are immediately known to be real by intuition.
The theory that ethical principles are known to be valid through intuition.
The view that the subject matter of mathematics consists of the mental or symbolic constructions of mathematicians rather than independent and timeless abstractions, as is held in Platonism.

in'tu·i'tion·ist n.

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