noun
- philosophical theories or doctrines that emphasize intuition as a source of knowledge or as the foundation of mathematics and logic
Usage: philosophy; mathematics
Examples
- The professor discussed various intuitionisms in his philosophy of mathematics course.
- Mathematical intuitionisms reject the law of excluded middle in certain contexts.
- Different intuitionisms have emerged throughout the history of philosophical thought.
- Students struggled to understand the distinctions between classical logic and intuitionisms.
- The debate between formalism and intuitionisms continues in mathematical philosophy.
- Her thesis compared several twentieth-century intuitionisms and their implications.