intuitionism

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L. E. J. Brouwer, for whom the theorem was named, founded a movement in mathematics called intuitionism.

From Scientific American • Aug. 27, 2018

Representationism could not possibly be avoided, neither could intuitionism be possibly fallen in with, on the analytic road which he took.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

But as every special study tends to rely upon its own conceptions, pietism, involving as it does a relation to God, is replaced by rigorism and intuitionism.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

And, like other forms of intuitionism, it has the merit of avoiding that short-circuiting which may easily prove seductive to the egoist or the utilitarian.

From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by Fullerton, George Stuart

That moral intuitions are indispensable may be freely admitted even by one who demurs to the doctrine that intuitionism in some one of its forms may be accepted as a satisfactory theory of morals.

From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by Fullerton, George Stuart