intuitionism

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Etymology

From intuition +‎ -ism.

Noun

intuitionism (countable and uncountable, plural intuitionisms)

  1. (mathematics) An approach to mathematics/logic which avoids proof by contradiction, and which requires that, in order to prove that something exists, one must construct it.

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