intuitionism: Meaning and Definition of

in•tu•i•tion•ism

1. the doctrine that moral values and duties can be discerned directly.
1. the doctrine that in perception external objects are given immediately, without the intervention of a representative idea.
2. the doctrine that knowledge rests upon axiomatic truths discerned directly.
3. the doctrine, propounded by L. E. J. Brouwer, that a mathematical object is considered to exist only if a method for constructing it can be given.