intuitionistic
intuitionistic adjective: dealing strictly in constructive proofs, abstaining from proof by contradiction.
Adjective
intuitionistic (not comparable)
- Dealing strictly in constructive proofs, abstaining from proof by contradiction
- Intuitionistic type theory is based on a certain analogy or isomorphism between propositions and types: a proposition is identified with the type of its proofs. This identification is usually called the Curry–Howard isomorphism, which was originally formulated for intuitionistic logic and simply...
- The system, which has come to be known as IZF, or Intuitionistic Zermelo–Fraenkel (ZF refers to ZFC without the axiom of choice), has the usual axioms of extensionality, pairing, union, infinity, separation and power set. The axiom of regularity is stated in the form of an axiom schema of set...
Origin of intuitionistic
From intuition + -istic.
Words formed from intuitionistic
Phrases with intuitionistic
Questions about intuitionistic
- What does intuitionistic mean?
- Intuitionistic means dealing strictly in constructive proofs, abstaining from proof by contradiction.
- What part of speech is intuitionistic?
- Intuitionistic is an adjective.
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