intuitionists

Much of the attention was given, by those who have come to be called intuitionists, to defending the idea that moral knowledge, while not based on our senses and on the empirical data we might collect, was nonetheless on as secure a footing as, say, our knowledge of mathematics or of the fundamental concepts (of, say, causation and necessity) that play crucial roles in science.

Metaethics Sayre-McCord, Geoff 2007

Rebranded as "intuitionists" or "mentalists" — terms more palatable to mainstream America — psychic advisers in recent years have been crossing over into the world of legitimate business, where they are used by decision makers in law, finance and entertainment looking for an edge in a down economy.

The $10,000-a-Month Psychic 2008

Brouwer and other intuitionists have shown how on this basis arithmetic, real analysis, and topology can be constructed.

The Development of Intuitionistic Logic van Atten, Mark 2009

Logicians may deprecate the woolly fuzziness of intuition; the intuitionists can easily decry the strictures of logic.

Archive 2009-09-01 Rus Bowden 2009

So when intuitionists deny that the Law of Excluded Middle holds in non-finitary contexts, they are actually taking truth as provability; and when paraconsistentists claim that some formula can be true (in some weird circumstances) together with its negation, they are not talking of negation anymore (see e.g. Berto 2006).

Impossible Worlds Berto, Francesco 2009

We will be principally concerned with the historical development of the intuitionists™ explanation of the logical connectives.

The Development of Intuitionistic Logic van Atten, Mark 2009

Logicians may deprecate the woolly fuzziness of intuition; the intuitionists can easily decry the strictures of logic.

Great Regulars: I can see from the above poem that rational Rus Bowden 2009

Supreme Court justices, like all of us, are emotional intuitionists.

More on Empathy and the Law William Harryman 2009

Supreme Court justices, like all of us, are emotional intuitionists.

George Lakoff: Empathy, Sotomayor, and Democracy: The Conservative Stealth Strategy 2009

For this reason, certain axioms from classical mathematics are rejected by intuitionists, such as the completeness axiom for real numbers, which says that if a non-empty set of real numbers has an upper bound, then it has a least upper bound: we know of no general method that would allow us to construct mentally the least upper bound whose existence the axiom claims.

The Development of Intuitionistic Logic van Atten, Mark 2009