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  • adjective mathematics, logic Dealing strictly in constructive proofs, abstaining from proof by contradiction.

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Examples

  • The idea was as old as intuitionistic logic: by the

    Chores 2009

  • If one wished to satisfy Hilbert's requirements, the task would still remain of showing intuitionistic arithmetic consistent.

    Chores 2009

  • The anti-realist's purported right to give up classical logic in favor of intuitionistic logic has been defended independently.

    Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

  • If, on the other hand, one admits the intuitionistic position as a secure basis in itself, i.e., as a consistent one, the consistency of classical arithmetic is secured by my result.

    Chores 2009

  • The undecidedness paradoxes give the anti-realist even further reason to revise classical logic in favor of intuitionistic logic.

    Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

  • Moreover, some of the intuitionistic consequences of KP are thought to be bad enough.

    Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

  • Owing to a verificationist (or constructivist) reading of negation and existential quantification, intuitionistic logic validates neither the elimination of double negation,

    Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

  • That is because in intuitionistic logic the quantifier exchange rule,

    Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

  • Williamson (1982) argues that Fitch's result is not a refutation of anti-realism, but rather a reason for the anti-realist to accept intuitionistic logic.

    Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

  • There is some debate about whether this consequence is sufficiently troublesome, but the the intuitionistic anti-realist takes solace in the fact that she is not committed to the blatantly absurd claim that all truths are known.

    Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

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