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n. - (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by gut feeling.

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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.
  • 'common-sense' view, and even to the hated 'intuitionism'; and Mill deserves the more credit for his candour.
  • "intuitionism" that views the body as something taken for granted, something there to touch, something outside language, in no way a philosophical problem.
  • Giuseppina Ronzitti's bibliography on intuitionism
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