intuitivismn.
/ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪvɪz(ə)m/ 1. The doctrine that the fundamental principles of ethics are matters of intuition.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [noun] > intuitivism and its adherents
intuitivisma1866
a1866 J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. (1870) i. 21 That doctrine, hostile to utilitarianism, to which he has given the name of ‘intuitivism’.
1874 H. Sidgwick Methods of Ethics i. ix. 99 The difference between the two phases of Intuitivism in which these notions are respectively prominent, is purely formal: their practical prescriptions are never found to conflict.
2. = intuitiveness n. 2.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > [noun]
sense1555
light of nature1561
intuitiona1600
instinct1600
perception1701
persentiscency1712
sixth sense1761
Anschauung1820
intuitiveness1873
intuitivism1883
seerhood1884
third eye1921
radar1949
1883 Cent. Mag. 479 They depend for their significancy on the words themselves as related to the appreciative intuitivism of the reader.
1886 J. B. Mayor Eng. Metre 50 What I should call the principle of aesthetic intuitivism.
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