Comment by layer8
21 hours ago
Classical logic isn’t rejected in computer science. Computer science papers don’t generally care if their proofs are non-constructive, just like in mathematics.
21 hours ago
Classical logic isn’t rejected in computer science. Computer science papers don’t generally care if their proofs are non-constructive, just like in mathematics.
This entire thread is making clear that constructivists want to speak on behalf of everyone while in the real word the vast majority of mathematicians or logicians don’t belong to their niche school of mathematics/philosophy.
Do you understand the irony in posting this on a comment chain ostensibly rejecting foundational objectivism?
They care quite a bit actually, they just call their constructive proofs "algorithms" or "decision procedures".
Intuitionism is just disallowing the law of the excluded middle (that propositions are either true or they are not true). Disallowing non-constructive proofs is a related system to intuitionism called “constructivism”. There are rigorous formulations of mathematics that are constructive, intuitionist or even strict finitist.
What point are you responding to?
THe parent of my post referred to disallowing non-constructive proofs, which is not a feature of intuitionist logic but of constructivism.