intuitionism.

intuitionalism, intuitionism.

1. Metaphysics. the doctrine that the reality of perceived external objects is known intuitively, without the intervention of a representative idea.
2. Metaphysics. the doctrine that knowledge rests upon axiomatic truths discerned intuitively.
3. Ethics. the doctrine that moral values and duties can be perceived directly. Also called intuitivism. — intuitionalist, intuitionist, n.
See also: Knowledge
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Ethical Intuitionism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Vlachos and Sergiadis [12] defined cross entropy measure in IFS environment and showed a mathematical connection between the notions of entropy for fuzzy sets and IFSs in terms of fuzziness and intuitionism. In 1998, Smarandache [13] introduced the concept of neutrosophic set (NS) by introducing truth membership, falsity membership and indeterminacy membership functions as independent components and their sum lies ([sup.-0], [3.sup.+]).
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 naive ethical intuitionism. Finally, my reading seems to wrongly import the methodology of Kant's theoretical philosophy into his practical philosophy.
Morphological rationalism overcomes the main difficulties of both rationalism and social intuitionism. Rationalism woes come from its insistence upon reasons and reasoning explicit forthcoming requirement in judgment formation, which is now adapted by the background morphology setting.
As I will show in the coming section, this conclusion is consistent with a proposal that the best analogy between philosophy of language and philosophy of mathematics relates the foundations of linguistics not to Mathematical Platonism, as Katz defends, but rather to Mathematical Intuitionism.
He himself senses this influence and he observes that our judgments are "influenced by our cultural heritage, particular upbringing, and professional training." (113) Nothing about this is embarrassing, nor does it necessarily entail bias or intuitionism. Americans fix the contours of constitutional morality in debate and dialogue with one another.
A set of articles comprises a symposium on David Kaspar's book Intuitionism. (1) According to Kaspar, the only way successfully to fend off both moral skepticism and subjectivism is to explain "the intuitive principles" (e.g., "Murder is wrong," "Promises should be kept").
Those who insist that constructive procedures be available in the setting just described likely belong to a school of mathematics known as Intuitionism. In general, intuitionists deny that there is any external reality to mathematical objects.