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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by intuition;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Intuitionism \In`tu*i"tion*ism\, n. Same as Intuitionalism. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

intuitionism n 1: (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by intuition
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

intuitionistic logic intuitionism Brouwer's foundational theory of mathematics which says that you should not count a proof of (There exists x such that P(x)) valid unless the proof actually gives a method of constructing such an x. Similarly, a proof of (A or B) is valid only if it actually exhibits either a proof of A or a proof of B. In intuitionism, you cannot in general assert the statement (A or not-A) (the principle of the excluded middle); (A or not-A) is not proven unless you have a proof of A or a proof of not-A. If A happens to be undecidable in your system (some things certainly will be), then there will be no proof of (A or not-A). This is pretty annoying; some kinds of perfectly healthy-looking examples of proof by contradiction just stop working. Of course, excluded middle is a theorem of classical logic (i.e. non-intuitionistic logic). History (http://britanica.com/bcom/eb/article/3/0,5716,118173+14+109826,00.html). (2001-03-18)