  Above and beyond the claims of logic, Weyl welcomed Brouwer’s  construction of the continuum by means of sequences generated by free acts of choice, thus identifying it as a “medium of free  Becoming” which “does not dissolve into a set of real  numbers as finished entities”. Weyl felt that Brouwer, through  his doctrine of   Intuitionism[21],  had come closer than anyone else to bridging that “unbridgeable chasm” between the intuitive and mathematical continua. In  particular, he found compelling the fact that the Brouwerian  continuum is not the union of two disjoint nonempty parts—that  it is, in a word, indecomposable. “A genuine continuum,”  Weyl says, “cannot be divided into separate   fragments.”[22]  In later publications he expresses this more colourfully by quoting  Anaxagoras to the effect that a continuum “defies the chopping  off of its parts with a hatchet.”