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. From Wordnik.com. [Constructive Mathematics] Reference
'common-sense' view, and even to the hated 'intuitionism'; and Mill deserves the more credit for his candour. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
"intuitionism" that views the body as something taken for granted, something there to touch, something outside language, in no way a philosophical problem. From Wordnik.com. [Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community] Reference
Giuseppina Ronzitti's bibliography on intuitionism. From Wordnik.com. [Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer] Reference
Williams 'acceptance of “methodological intuitionism”. From Wordnik.com. [Bernard Williams] Reference
Nor should one think that intuitionism rules out argument. From Wordnik.com. [Well-Being] Reference
At this stage non-intuitionism collapses into intuitionism. From Wordnik.com. [Harold Arthur Prichard] Reference
Gödel's interest in intuitionism was deep and long-lasting. From Wordnik.com. [Kurt Gödel] Reference
Nor does he ever seem inclined to break with intuitionism completely. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
However, the difficulty of such cases is compatible with intuitionism. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Non-Naturalism] Reference
In particular, Hilbert's former student Hermann Weyl converted to intuitionism. From Wordnik.com. [Hilbert's Program] Reference
On most accounts, this leads, like intuitionism, to revisionism in mathematics. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
According to intuitionism, mathematics is essentially an activity of construction. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
In philosophy, his brainchild is intuitionism, a revisionist foundation of mathematics. From Wordnik.com. [Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer] Reference
I write "may believe" because I am choosing what seems to me the most plausible form of intuitionism. From Wordnik.com. [A Special Supplement: A New Philosophy of the Just Society] Reference
He was strongly influenced by Sidgwick at Cambridge, but rejected Sidgwick's views about intuitionism. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Morality] Reference
This intuitionism may be the assumed ground of Western philosophy and of current cultural studies too. From Wordnik.com. [Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community] Reference
Forms of intuitionism have been conveniently classified as Perceptional, Dogmatic and Philosophical. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
There is nothing here that is inconsistent with intuitionism, or even hard for the intuitionist to explain. From Wordnik.com. [Harold Arthur Prichard] Reference
But the process of reflection should not stop there: there is another, more sophisticated phase of intuitionism. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Sidgwick] Reference
˜intuitionism and Formalism™ and thus becomes, in 1913, the first publication on intuitionism in that language. From Wordnik.com. [Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer] Reference
A detailed historical discussion of the reactions to Brouwer's mature intuitionism during the foundational debate. From Wordnik.com. [Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer] Reference
As a form of intuitionism the doctrine of following .. nature may be criticised in much the same way as other forms. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Such intuitionism, while cursorily evading interpretive variability, led instead to insoluble conflicts of authority. From Wordnik.com. [Taoism] Reference
It is very interesting to note that one of our best critics of intuitionism, Hemy Sidgwick, was himself an intuitionist. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The ascent to this philosophical intuitionism is especially evident in the treatment of common-sense or intuitional morality. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Sidgwick] Reference
The Cambridge lectures of 1946-1951, which are recommended as Brouwer's own introduction to intuitionism, have been published as. From Wordnik.com. [Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer] Reference
In any event, if intuitionism is defensible then it provides the non-naturalist with an answer to both of the questions raised above. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Non-Naturalism] Reference
This was his Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, a comprehensive critique of the latter's rationalism and intuitionism. From Wordnik.com. [John Stuart Mill] Reference
There can be little doubt that this dogmatic, self-congratulatory trend of “authoritarian intuitionism” existed in classical thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Taoism] Reference
Representationism could not possibly be avoided, neither could intuitionism be possibly fallen in with, on the analytic road which he took. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
We have seen above, that perceptional intuitionism tends to pass over into dogmatic intuitionism of some sort, even in the case of minds little developed. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Burke's intuitionism is an extraordinary political philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
˜intuitionism™ and I shall henceforth also refer to it as intuitionism. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Non-Naturalism] Reference
They are intensely connected to anarchist thought, especially indebted to Bergson's intuitionism. From Wordnik.com. [Kafila] Reference
Among the most important forms of the theory are the intuitionism, or common-sense morality, of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
Whether Aristotelean dialectic is the same thing as intuitionism is of course a complicated question. From Wordnik.com. [Cato Unbound] Reference
Kant, Immanuel | mathematics, philosophy of: intuitionism | metaethics | moral particularism | motivation |. From Wordnik.com. [Harold Arthur Prichard] Reference
It is lifted as far above the crudities of intuitionism as the whisperings of an angel are above a schoolboy's code. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
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