Re:Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [v...
by maxiepoo on Friday April 17, 2020 @11:47AM
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I think you and OP are talking about different things because the term "intuitionist" has been used for both the philosophy that EJ Brouwer espoused (which matches what OP said) and the large field of constructive mathematics that has been greatly influenced by Brouwer's philosophy but has embraced approaches like formal logic which Brouwer himself disliked.
The "mental activity" part isn't strictly necessary. A constructive mathematics will produce results that are largely the same. What matters most is that mathematical objects are proven by construction, and so proofs have a direct translation to computation.