Single Idea 18798

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

Full Idea

Although intuitionistic propositional and first-order logics are sub-systems of the corresponding classical systems, intuitionistic second-order logic affirms the negations of some classical theorems.

Gist of Idea

It is the second-order part of intuitionistic logic which actually negates some classical theorems

Source

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

Book Reference

Rumfitt,Ian: 'The Boundary Stones of Thought' [OUP 2015], p.2