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intuitionism

/in-too-ish-uh-niz-uhm, -tyoo-/US // ˌɪn tuˈɪʃ əˌnɪz əm, -tyu- //UK // (ˌɪntjʊˈɪʃəˌnɪzəm) //

直觉主义,直观主义,直觉论,预见主义

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Ethics. the doctrine that moral values and duties can be discerned directly.
    • : Metaphysics. the doctrine that in perception external objects are given immediately, without the intervention of a representative idea.the doctrine that knowledge rests upon axiomatic truths discerned directly.
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • We find him quoted with approval by Clarke, who is commonly taken to represent Intuitionism in an extreme form.

  • On this view, which I may distinguish as sthetic Intuitionism, I shall have something to say hereafter.

  • The wider of the two meanings of Intuition here distinguished is required in treating of Philosophical Intuitionism.

  • Dewey's criticism of intuitionism scarcely does justice to that method, whatever may be its inherent weakness.

  • It attempts thus to supplant both egoism and intuitionism by the same doctrine of the organic union between individuals.