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It is claimed that the ideal possibility of picking up any object of the universe of discourse is essential not only in intuitionistic but also in classical logic and mathematics.
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I am grateful to my colleagues Pierdaniele Giaretta and Ernesto Napoli for a number of helpful comments. My best thanks to Aldo Antonelli for inviting me to write the paper.
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Martino, E. (2018). Arbitrary Reference in Mathematical Reasoning. 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_12
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