Word: intuitionism
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"The key to this approach," he writes, "lies in conceiving the whole space-time continuum of our human intuition as being immersed in a space of higher dimensions." The reality of a higher dimension than the three of space and one of time may seem somewhat elusive to ordinary human...
An Unknown Field. How humans think and learn has been investigated enough by teachers and philosophers over 20 or 30 centuries to produce a set of working rules-for example, six is supposedly the right age for children to start school. But scientific study of the functions of the brain...
Unlike the flint-hard company men often assigned to wrestle with labor, Detroit-born Lou Seaton possesses an easy geniality and a deep concern with the problems of the working stiff. As personnel chief for the world's biggest corporation, Seaton takes unconcealed pleasure and pride in his responsibility...
Break with Freud. Jung classified basic personality types as extraverts or introverts, then added a breakdown by function: "With perception, you know something is there. Thinking tells you what it is. Feeling tells you what it is worth to you or to others. And intuition tells what the damn thing...
"Intuition, divination, instinct, were as good for them as 'proofs' today," according to Courant. Only after the revolution did mathematicians inject rigor into their textbooks to guide the large numbers of people suddenly confronted with the chance to educate themselves.