intuitionism
- noun
- /ˌɪntuˈɪʃənɪzəm/
- Formal
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intuicionismo
- Although the appeal to an immediate consciousness of moral obligation looks suspiciously like a relapse into ethical intuitionism, Kant clearly dismisses such an interpretation.
Or maybe, you know, WD Ross and, and Robert Audi's intuitionism.
- Or maybe, you know, WD Ross and, and Robert Audi's intuitionism.
Examples
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The second objection is that taking the fact of reason as the starting point for the deductive authentication of objective moral concepts reduces Kant's argument to a form of naïve ethical intuitionism.
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The formalistic school should therefore accord some recognition to intuitionism, instead of polemicizing against it in sneering tones, while not even observing proper mention of authorship.
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I can believe in intuitionism without understanding what is in the physical, what, what is the, the basis for, for morality.
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"... formalism has received nothing but benefactions from intuitionism and may expect further benefactions.
Blog text (14) -
Alford's hesitancy here is understandable, since any claim that smacks of Cartesian intuitionism is to be avoided at all costs.
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"Intuitionism's sharpest and most passionate challenge is the one it flings at the validity of the principle of excluded middle, Hilbert.
Blog text (14) -
Ignoring this point, he says, sets up a false dichotomy of morality as either imposed by us or imposed by another, in other words, an unnecessary dilemma between some form of either constructivism or intuitionism in ethics.
Academic text (2017) -
Philosophers like G.E. Moore defended intuitionism, arguing that some moral truths are intuitively known.
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Many students of ethics explore intuitionism as a way to understand moral knowledge beyond empirical evidence.
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Critics of intuitionism often argue that relying on intuition fails to provide a solid foundation for moral decisions.
Antonyms
- Formal
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The belief that reason and logic give true knowledge more than feeling or experience
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Intuitionism comes from intuition ('a quick feeling or knowing without thinking') plus the ending -ism ('a system or belief'). So intuitionism is the belief that we find truth by an inner 'seeing' or feeling rather than by slow logic or outside facts.