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shinoteki comments on Constructive mathemathics and its dual - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: MrMind 28 February 2013 05:21PM

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Comment author: shinoteki 28 February 2013 07:47:06PM 0 points [-]

Constructively, (not ((not A) and (not B))) is weaker than (A or B). While you could call the former "A or B", you then have to come up with a new name for the latter.

Comment author: prase 28 February 2013 10:10:59PM 0 points [-]

I haven't been suggesting using (A or B) as a name for (not ((not A) and (not B))) in constructive logic where they aren't equivalent. Rather, I have been suggesting using classical logic (where the above sentences are equivalent) with a constructivist interpretation, i.e. not making difference between "true" and "theorem". But since it is possible for (A or B) to be a theorem and simultaneously for both A and B to be non-theorems, logical "or" would not have the same interpretation, namely it wouldn't match the common language "or" (for when we say "A or B is true", we mean that indeed one of them must be true).