Definition of "intuitionalism" []

• The doctrine that the perception or recognition of primary truth is intuitive, or direct and immediate. (noun)

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• "Esoterically understood, his novel teaches a doctrine of mysticism, intuitionalism, and materialism combined."
• "Though there would seem to be an element of truth in intuitionalism, since man, to be man at all, must be conceived as made for God and having that in him which points to the end or ideal of his being, still in its most extreme form it would not be difficult to show that this theory is untenable."
• "The traditional method of combating intuitionalism from the time of John Locke to that of Herbert Spencer has been to present the reader with a list of cruel and abominable savage customs, ridiculous superstitions, acts of religious fanaticism and intolerance, which have all alike seemed self-evidently good and right to the peoples or individuals who have practised them."