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It is criticised Dummett’s refutation of Brouwer’s dogma. It is argued that his criticism rests on an erroneous interpretation of Brouwer’s idea of “canonical proof”.
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Martino, E. (2018). Brouwer, Dummett and the Bar Theorem. In: Intuitionistic Proof Versus Classical Truth. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, vol 42. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74357-8_1
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