intuitionist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   philosophy or ethics: an adherent of intuitionism, especially the view that some truths or moral principles are known directly rather than inferred

   The moral intuitionist argued that some duties are self-evident.

2. 2
   noun

   mathematics: an adherent of the constructive philosophy of mathematics known as intuitionism

   An intuitionist may reject a proof that depends only on the law of excluded middle.

3. 3
   adj

   relating to or based on intuitionism

   The essay compares intuitionist ethics with consequentialist theories.

Formed from intuition + -ist. The philosophical term arose in the nineteenth century for doctrines grounding knowledge or morals in direct intuition; the specialized mathematical sense developed later with mathematical intuitionism.

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