Intuitionistic is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Intuitionistic in a sentence
Intuitionistic meaning
Dealing strictly in constructive proofs, abstaining from proof by contradiction
Using Intuitionistic
- The main meaning on this page is: Dealing strictly in constructive proofs, abstaining from proof by contradiction
- In the example corpus, intuitionistic often appears in combinations such as: intuitionistic logic, the intuitionistic, in intuitionistic.
Context around Intuitionistic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Intuitionistic
- In this selection, "intuitionistic" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, extends, example, defined, logic, proofs and propositional stand out and add context to how "intuitionistic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include adapted to intuitionistic logic and and because the intuitionistic notion of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "intuitionistic" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with intuitionistic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Intuitionistic logicians do not accept the axiom NOT-3. (9 words)
Intuitionistic first-order logic Let L be a first-order language. (11 words)
Homotopy type theory differs from intuitionistic type theory mostly by its handling of the equality type. (16 words)
Results such as the Gödel–Gentzen negative translation show that it is possible to embed (or translate) classical logic into intuitionistic logic, allowing some properties about intuitionistic proofs to be transferred back to classical proofs. (35 words)
However, because the intuitionistic notion of truth is more restrictive than that of classical mathematics, the intuitionist must reject some assumptions of classical logic to ensure that everything he proves is in fact intuitionistically true. (35 words)
Even when the logic under study is intuitionistic, entailment is ordinarily understood classically as two-valued: either the left side entails, or is less-or-equal to, the right side, or it is not. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Intuitionistic logic Kripke semantics for the intuitionistic logic follows the same principles as the semantics of modal logic, but uses a different definition of satisfaction.
Kleene's work with the proof theory of intuitionistic logic showed that constructive information can be recovered from intuitionistic proofs.
Results such as the Gödel–Gentzen negative translation show that it is possible to embed (or translate) classical logic into intuitionistic logic, allowing some properties about intuitionistic proofs to be transferred back to classical proofs.
A fundamental example is the use of Boolean algebras to represent truth values in classical propositional logic, and the use of Heyting algebras to represent truth values in intuitionistic propositional logic.
Both conjunction and disjunction are associative, commutative and idempotent in classical logic, most varieties of many-valued logic and intuitionistic logic.
But van Heijenoort says Herbrand's conception was "on the whole much closer to that of Hilbert's word 'finitary' ('finit') that to "intuitionistic" as applied to Brouwer's doctrine".
Classical logic extends intuitionistic logic with an additional axiom or principle of excluded middle : :For any proposition p, the proposition p ∨ ¬p is true.
Even when the logic under study is intuitionistic, entailment is ordinarily understood classically as two-valued: either the left side entails, or is less-or-equal to, the right side, or it is not.
For example, in most systems of logic (but not in intuitionistic logic ) Peirce's law (((P→Q)→P)→P) is a theorem.
Homotopy type theory differs from intuitionistic type theory mostly by its handling of the equality type.
However, because the intuitionistic notion of truth is more restrictive than that of classical mathematics, the intuitionist must reject some assumptions of classical logic to ensure that everything he proves is in fact intuitionistically true.
However, vacuous truth also appears in, for example, intuitionistic logic in the same situations given above.
Interestingly, various properties that single out the finite sets among all sets in the theory ZFC turn out logically inequivalent in weaker systems such as ZF or intuitionistic set theories.
Intuitionistic first-order logic Let L be a first-order language.
Intuitionistic logicians do not accept the axiom NOT-3.
Intuitionistic logic is sound and complete with respect to its Kripke semantics, and it has the Finite Model Property.
Intuitionistic logic was developed by Heyting to study Brouwer's program of intuitionism, in which Brouwer himself avoided formalization.
It was first made for modal logics, and later adapted to intuitionistic logic and other non-classical systems.
Kleene formally defined intuitionistic truth from a realist position, yet Brouwer would likely reject this formalization as meaningless, given his rejection of the realist/Platonist position.
Later, Kleene and Kreisel would study formalized versions of intuitionistic logic (Brouwer rejected formalization, and presented his work in unformalized natural language).
Common combinations with intuitionistic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- intuitionistic logic 12×
- the intuitionistic 5×
- in intuitionistic 3×
- of intuitionistic 2×
- from intuitionistic 2×
- intuitionistic proofs 2×
- to intuitionistic 2×
- intuitionistic type 2×
- intuitionistic notion 2×
- intuitionistic set 2×