intuitionist
Speech parts
1. intuitionist - Noun
2. intuitionist - Adjective
Meaning
Same as Intuitionalist.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.
An example of an intuitionist definition is "Mathematics is the mental activity which consists in carrying out constructs one after the other."
However, because the intuitionistic notion of truth is more restrictive than that of classical mathematics, the intuitionist must reject some assumptions of classical logic to ensure that everything he proves is in fact intuitionistically true.
In classical logic, the negation of a statement asserts that the statement is false; to an intuitionist, it means the statement is refutable citation (e.
This is closer to intuitionist and constructivist views on the material conditional, rather than to classical logic's ones.
For example, if A is some mathematical statement that an intuitionist has not yet proved or disproved, then that intuitionist will not assert the truth of "A or not A".