Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - intuitionism

 noun  Date: 1847  1.  a. a doctrine that objects of perception are intuitively known to be real  b. a doctrine that there are basic truths intuitively known  2. a doctrine that right or wrong or fundamental principles about what is right and wrong can be intuited  3. a philosophical thesis that human beings have a direct intuitive understanding of mathematics and that rejects the principle that every mathematical statement must be true or false  • intuitionist adjective or noun