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A. d’Abro (1901 – 1996), Armenian-American science historian and writer. His major works include The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein (1927), Newtonian Mechanics (1934), and The Rise of the New Physics: Its Mathematical and Physical Theories (1939). His fields of specialization were history of physics, the philosophy of science, and the popularization of science.
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Intuitionism: A) intuitionism in mathematics assumes that the objects to be inspected, e.g. numbers are only constructed in the process of the investigation and are therefore not ready objects, which are discovered. This has an effect on the double negation and the sentence of the excluded middle. B) Intuitionism of ethics assumes that moral principles are fixed and are immediately (or intuitively) knowable. _____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Brouwer, Luitzen E. J. | Intuitionism | Brouwer | |
Dummett, Michael E. | Intuitionism | Dummett | |
d’Abro, A. | Intuitionism | d’Abro | |
Heyting, Arend | Intuitionism | Heyting | |
Lorenzen, Paul | Intuitionism | Lorenzen | |
McDowell, John | Intuitionism | McDowell | |
Putnam, Hilary | Intuitionism | Putnam | |
Quine, W.V.O. | Intuitionism | Quine | |
Rawls, John | Intuitionism | Rawls | |
Waismann, Friedrich | Intuitionism | Waismann | |
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