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The principal task of this book is to provide a theory of constructions, explaining what constructions are, what we can do with them, and how they provide a foundation for predicate calculus, arithmetic and analysis. Before doing so I should explain why we need such a theory, why the informal remarks on the subject by Brouwer and Heyting are not sufficient.
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Fletcher, P. (1998). The Need for a Theory of Constructions. In: Truth, Proof and Infinity. Synthese Library, vol 276. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3616-9_7
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