[FOM] An intuitionistic query

Thomas Forster T.Forster at dpmms.cam.ac.uk
Fri Sep 11 16:41:05 EDT 2009


> For any of these interpretations, I have a related question.
> Is the following intuitive implication
>     A={a,b,c}  ==>   |A|=1 v |A|=2 v |A|=3      (**)
> intuitionistically valid?
> 
    No, because it implies that all equations between a,b and c obey 
excluded middle.



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