intuitionalism

[ in-too-ish-uh-nl-iz-uhm, -tyoo- ]

noun

1. intuitionism.

Other Words From

• intu·ition·al·ist noun adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of intuitionalism¹

First recorded in 1840–50; intuitional + -ism

Example Sentences

When Sidgwick defends Intuitionalism with the argument that the rightness of some kinds of action is known without consideration of ulterior consequences, we may answer that it is true that tradition furnishes us with many rules that we may follow without consideration of the consequences of our acts, but that it is very doubtful whether we act with the highest degree of morality in so doing.

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The error has its source, doubtless, in the fact that the utilitarian school represents a recoil from the older, superstitious Intuitionalism, which not only defended a doctrine of conscience as a sort of supernatural or half-supernatural instinct, on a plane above ordinary instinct, but, relying upon it as of such character, practically denied to reason any authority in matters of morality.

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The vital impulse, intuitionalism, and rhythmic flow of time in Bergson caught the fancy of the poets.

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Empiricism," he says, "is no more historic in character than is intuitionalism.

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Both empiricism and intuitionalism, though in very different ways, deny the continuity of the moralizing process.

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