Intuitionistic logic
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Intuitionistic logic, sometimes more generally called constructive logic, is a system of symbolic logic that differs from classical logic by replacing the traditional concept of truth with the concept of constructive provability. For example, in classical logic, propositional formulae are always assigned a truth value from the two element set of trivial propositions <math>\{\top, \bot\}</math> ("true" and "false" respectively) regardless of whether we have direct evidence for either case. In contrast, propositional formulae in intuitionistic logic are not assigned any definite truth value at all and instead only considered "true" when we have direct evidence, hence proof. (We can also say, instead of the propositional formula being "true" due to direct evidence, that it is inhabited by a proof in the Curry-Howard sense.) Operations in intuitionistic logic therefore preserve justification, with respect to evidence and provability, rather than truth-valuation.
See also
- BHK interpretation
- Intuitionistic Type Theory
- Intermediate logics
- Linear logic
- Constructive proof
- Curry–Howard correspondence
- Computability logic
- Game semantics
- Smooth infinitesimal analysis
