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• INTUITION (from Lat. intueri, to look at)

INTUITION (from See also:

• LAT

Lat. intueri, to look at)  , in See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy, a terns applied to immediate or See also:

• DIRECT

direct See also:

• APPREHENSION (Lat. ad, to; prehendere, to seize)

apprehension . The truth of a theorem in See also:

• GEOMETRY

geometry is demonstrated by a more or less elaborate See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of arguments . This is not the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case, accordingto the intuitionalist school of philosophy, with the apprehension of universal principles, which See also:

• PRESENT

present themselves as necessarily true in their own right, without any sort of See also:

• PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof . The fact that things which are equal to the same things are equal to one another is apprehended directly or immediately without demonstration . Similarly in See also:

• ETHICS
• ETHICS, SHAFTESBURY, HOBBES

ethics the intuitional school holds that the principles of right and wrong are immediately apprehended without reference to any other criterion and without any See also:

• APPEAL

appeal to experience . Ethical intuitionalism sometimes goes even farther, and holds that the See also:

• CONSCIENCE (Lat. con-scientia, literally " knowledge of a thing shared with another person " or " complete knowledge," and derivatively " consciousness in general)
• CONSCIENCE, HENDRIK (1812-1883)

conscience when faced with any particular See also:

• ACTION

action at once assigns to it a definite moral value . Such a view presupposes that the moral quality of an action has, as it were, See also:

• CONCRETE
• CONCRETE (Lat. concretes, participle of concrescere, to grow together)

concrete reality which the See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of conscience immediately recognizes, much in the same way as a See also:

• BAROMETER (from Gr. (3apoc, pressure, and µETpov, measure)

barometer records atmospheric pressure . The intuitionalist view is attacked mainly on the ground that it is false to the facts of experience, and it is maintained that many of the so-called immediate a priori judgments are in point of fact the result of forgotten processes of reasoning, and therefore a posteriori . See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

Minor grounds of attack are found in the difficulty of discovering in certain See also:

• PRIMITIVE

primitive peoples any intuitive conception of right and wrong, and in the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• DIFFERENCES, CALCULUS OF (Theory of Finite Differences)

differences which exist between moral systems in different countries and ages .