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- From: sanjiva@ecrc.de (Sanjiva Prasad)
- Subject: Question about Intuitionistic/Constructive logics
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.110747.3850@ecrc.de>
- Sender: news@ecrc.de
- Reply-To: sanjiva@ecrc.de (Sanjiva Prasad)
- Organization: European Computer-Industry Research Centre, Munich
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 11:07:47 GMT
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- Hi, I have just started trying to learn about intuitionistic logic,
- and constructive logics in general, and am a little puzzled by some notions
- there, particularly of implication. Perhaps someone would be kind enough to
- help me. (By e-mail please, I don't read this newsgroup regularly).
-
- From what I could understand from the book I was reading ("Intuitionism" by
- Heyting -- but I don't any more have access to the book ), a mathematical
- proposition demands a construction *with certain properties* and can be
- asserted when such a construction (in what seems to be an extremely general
- sense of the term) is carried out.
-
- About implication: P->Q can be asserted iff there is a construction r such
- that "joined to" any construction, say s, proving P, would automatically effect
- a construction proving Q.
-
- I am a little puzzled by what "joined to" exactly means. In all the
- examples I've seen, it has been juxtaposition of r and s -- which is
- okay for applications such as the type system for functional languages etc.
- (I think Heyting, in fact, says something to the effect of "by the definition
- of implication, the construction consists of simply the juxtaposition of
- r and s").
-
- My first question is whether (and if so, what) constructions C[r,s]
- more complicated than juxtaposition can be used for defining implication
- in an object language different from propositional intuitionistic logic.
- That is, in general, what are these "certain properties" that the
- constructions must have?
-
- Thanks,
-
- Sanjiva Prasad (sanjiva@ecrc.de)
-