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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The theory that certain truths or ethical principles are known by intuition rather than reason.
- noun The theory that external objects of perception are immediately known to be real by intuition.
- noun 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine of Reid and other Scotch philosophers that external objects are immediately known in perception, without the intervention of a vicarious phenomenon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
intuitionalism .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mathematics An approach to mathematics/logic which avoids
proof by contradiction , and which requires that, in order to prove that something exists, one mustconstruct it.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by intuition
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Examples
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In Brouwer's philosophy, known as intuitionism, mathematics is a free creation of the human mind, and an object exists if and only if it can be (mentally) constructed.
Constructive Mathematics Bridges, Douglas 2009
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The commentator also suggests that the classification is problematic; but the reasons given are considerably more obscure, and some of them seem based on not taking the Whewell-Mill example seriously, and on not paying attention to the meaning that it sets up for the label 'intuitionism' in particular, the comment doesn't seem to recognize what intuitionism meant in the time period from which I explicitly took the term.
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The commentator also suggests that the classification is problematic; but the reasons given are considerably more obscure, and some of them seem based on not taking the Whewell-Mill example seriously, and on not paying attention to the meaning that it sets up for the label 'intuitionism' in particular, the comment doesn't seem to recognize what intuitionism meant in the time period from which I explicitly took the term.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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For those who need more than I've given above to clarify what I mean by 'intuitionism' and 'utilitarianism', a good place to start is John Stuart Mill's "Whewell on Moral Philosophy"; it's partisan, but it's clear. posted by Brandon | 10:32 AM
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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For those who need more than I've given above to clarify what I mean by 'intuitionism' and 'utilitarianism', a good place to start is John Stuart Mill's "Whewell on Moral Philosophy"; it's partisan, but it's clear. posted by Brandon | 10:32 AM
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German influence came to modify the whole controversy, the vital issue seemed to lie between the doctrine of Reid or 'intuitionism' on the one hand, and the purely 'experiential' school on the other, whether, as in France, it followed Condillac, or, as in England, looked back chiefly to Hartley.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868
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"intuitionism" that views the body as something taken for granted, something there to touch, something outside language, in no way a philosophical problem.
Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community 2008
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'common-sense' view, and even to the hated 'intuitionism'; and Mill deserves the more credit for his candour.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868
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In his middle period, inaugurated by the first formulations of the idea of “the place of Absolute Nothingness” in From That Which Acts to That Which Sees, Nishida's thought was characterized by a shift from his earlier voluntarism to a kind of intuitionism of pure seeing without a seer (see NKZ IV, 3 “ 6).
The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006
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I'm giving ID every possible benefit of the doubt here – they can mean consciousness, or they can mean dualism, or they can stick with folk psychology and intuitionism, or any other thing they want.
Aiguy's Computer 2008
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