Bruno Marchal a écrit (to Jamie N Rose):
> Concerning your use of the word "proposition", I don't understand > exactly what you mean by the words "exists" "accessible" "perfectly > accessible", .... The whole sentence is rather hard to follow. > Godel used this: > From A -> B and A -> ~B, infer ~A. > > Godel did not really use the non intuitionist principle (but readily > accepted by arithmetical platonist): > From A -> B and A -> ~B, infer ~A. > > Of course Godel was platonist (even set-platonist), but he did it to > satisfy as much as possible the finititary requirement imposed by its > goal to solve (negatively) Hilbert's problem. > Of course with Church thesis, all this is made much simpler. The formula in the second paragraph should be: From ~A -> B and ~A -> ~B, infer A. Sorry. (An intuitionist will accept only "From ~A -> B and ~A -> ~B, infer ~~A.). Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

