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Comment by couchand

2 years ago

> it respects boolean logic.

Intuitionist or classical?

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tunesmith  2 years ago

Intuitionist. Truth is provability; the propagation model is basically digital logic. If you mark a premise to a conclusion false, the conclusion is then marked "false" but it really just means "it is false that it is proven"; vitiated. Might still be true, just needs further work.

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