Single Idea 18799

[catalogued under 4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 2. Intuitionist Logic]

Full Idea

Double Negation Elimination is a rule of inference which the classicist accepts without restriction, but which the intuitionist accepts only for decidable propositions.

Gist of Idea

Intuitionists can accept Double Negation Elimination for decidable propositions

Source

Ian Rumfitt (The Boundary Stones of Thought [2015], 1.1)

Book Reference

Rumfitt,Ian: 'The Boundary Stones of Thought' [OUP 2015], p.3


A Reaction

This cures me of my simplistic understanding that intuitionists just reject the rules about double negation.