INTUITIONISM

noun Date: 1847 1. a doctrine that objects of perception are intuitively known to be real, a doctrine that there are basic truths intuitively known, a doctrine that right or wrong or fundamental principles about what is right and wrong can be intuited, a philosophical thesis that human beings have a direct intuitive understanding of mathematics and that rejects the principle that every mathematical statement must be true or false, intuitionist adjective or noun