1) intuitionism. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000. ...The theory that truth or certain truths are known by intuition rather than reason. 2. The theory that external objects of perception are immediately known to be real... 2) 45657. Quine, Willard Van Orman. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 ...twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism. ATTRIBUTION:Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908),... 3) Sidgwick, Henry. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...with a view toward the agent's own self-interest. After comparing ethical systems based on intuitionism, and utilitarianism, and egoism, he concluded that intuitionism... 4) modernism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...The movement as a whole was profoundly influenced by the pragmatism of William James, the intuitionism of Henri Bergson, and the philosophy of action of Maurice Blondel.... 5) Reid, Thomas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...of John Locke. Reid based morality on conscience or moral sense, the ethical position of intuitionism. He had considerable influence on Dugald Stewart and Sir William... 6) intuition. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...has provoked lively debate in the history of Western philosophy. According to mathematical intuitionism, mathematical knowledge rests on mathematical concepts that... 7) ethics. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...considerations are merely expressions of the subjective desires of the individual; and intuitionism (G. E. Moore), which postulates an immediate awareness of the... 8) §27. Henry Sidgwick; "The Methods of Ethics". I. Philosophers. Vol. 14. The
Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge History of English and American
Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21 ...general happiness as the ethical end. His own utilitarianism is based upon a new synthesis of intuitionism and empiricism. Here enters his central doctrine of the... |