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Negations in conflict

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Intuitionist logic lacks the familiarity, the convenience, the simplicity, and the beauty of our logic ⋯ A kind of intuitive meaning is intended for its sentence connectives, and explained with the help of words and phrases like ‘refute’ and ‘follow from’; but these explanations go dim when one tries to respect the distinction between saying a sentence and talking about it. One does as well to bypass these explanations and go straight to Heyting's axiomatization of intuitionistic logic, ⋯

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  1. Department of Philosophy, Texas A & M University, 77843-4237, College Station, TX, USA

    Michael Hand

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Hand, M. Negations in conflict. Erkenntnis 38, 115–129 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01129025

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