— intuitionist , n. , adj.
/in'tooh ish"euh niz'euhm, -tyooh-/ , n.
1. Ethics. the doctrine that moral values and duties can be discerned directly.
2. Metaphys.
a. the doctrine that in perception external objects are given immediately, without the intervention of a representative idea.
b. the doctrine that knowledge rests upon axiomatic truths discerned directly.
3. Logic , Math. 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.
[ 1840-50; INTUITION + -ISM ]