Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An adherent of the doctrine of Reid concerning immediate perception.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as intuitionalist.

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  • noun A person who studies intuitionistic mathematics

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  • adjective of or relating to intuitionism

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Examples

  • Is this supposed to be an epistemological concern as the term intuitionist seems to suggest — i.e., a worry that individual actors will have some kind of trouble discovering what is in fact just, independently of the contents of the law?

    Paul Till You Puke 2008

  • Kethi is a human "intuitionist" - echoes of IM Banks - who is from a habitat that made itself scarce in the war, established a while ago by a charismatic leading figure of the Allied Worlds who became a "prophet" preaching the message that aliens will come and threaten humanity soon, so humanity should prepare for that rather than fight a stupid civil war.

    "The Noise Within" by Ian Whates (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2010

  • I am arguing, rather, that those in cultural studies would do well to take into account the challenge Nancy and Derrida, in different ways, pose to the "intuitionist" tradition.

    Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community 2008

  • The "intuitionist" label is Grost's own, although the division reminds me a bit of Colson Whitehead's novel The Intuitionist, in which elevator inspectors are divided into "intuitionists" and "empiricists."

    Week 42: Doing Donuts on Free Lunch Drive Douglas Wolk 2007

  • The "intuitionist" label is Grost's own, although the division reminds me a bit of Colson Whitehead's novel The Intuitionist, in which elevator inspectors are divided into "intuitionists" and "empiricists."

    Archive 2007-02-01 Douglas Wolk 2007

  • Though appealing to experience, they reach formulæ as absolute as any 'intuitionist' could desire.

    The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868

  • Alyssa Milano, left, is just one of the many celebrities who seek the help of "intuitionist" Laura Day.

    CNN.com 2009

  • Claire fancies herself a psychic, though she prefers the term "intuitionist," and not surprisingly, Fritz is embarrassed by her spiritual bent.

    unknown title 2009

  • 'intuitionist' school was precisely their insistence upon history.

    The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868

  • The Logic is again found consistent with Brouwer's intuitionist mathematics, where truth is revealed by the mathematical exorcize of derivation.

    Ambiguity Tolerance 2008

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