Intuitionalist

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In`tu`i´tion`al`ist


n.1.One who holds the doctrine of intuitionalism.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Although McCloskey argues against the intuitionalist and neoinstitutionalist perspective in a broad sense, she fails to directly engage Dutch historians of this tradition.
McCloskey and the Dutch: Capitalist Rhetoric and the Economic History of Holland
She focuses on sequent calculi for various non-classical logics, from intuitionalist logic to relevance logic through linear and model logics.
Proof theory: Sequent Calculi and Related Formalisms
Popper states that the objectivity of mathematical objects for Brouwer, that is, their character as objects, and possibility of their existence "rested entirely in the possibility of repeating their construction at will." According to Popper, "for the intuitionalist, mathematical objects existed in the human mind; while for the formalist, they existed 'on paper'".
L.E.J. Brouwer and Karl Popper: two perspectives on mathematics
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