intuitionist
/ˌɪntuˈɪʃənɪst/
noun
- A person who believes that knowledge or truth comes from instinctive feeling rather than from reasoning or evidence.
- The philosopher was known as an intuitionist, arguing that moral truths are known directly without proof.
- As an intuitionist, she trusted her gut feelings when making important decisions.
- Many artists are intuitionists, relying on their creative instincts rather than strict rules.
- A mathematician who follows intuitionism, a school of thought that rejects certain logical principles and insists that mathematical objects must be constructible in the mind.
- The intuitionist refused to accept the proof because it relied on the law of excluded middle.
- The young mathematician became an intuitionist after studying the works of Brouwer.
- In the debate, the intuitionist argued that infinite sets do not exist in the same way as finite ones.
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