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Intuitionistic Logic (Wikipedia [accessed 19-Jul-2015], Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [accessed 19-Jul-2015]) can be thought of as a constructive logic in which we must build and exhibit concrete examples of objects before we can accept their existence. Unproved statements in intuitionistic logic are not given an intermediate truth value, instead, they remain of unknown truth value until they are either proved or disproved. Intuitionist logic can also be thought of as a weakening of classical logic such that the law of excluded middle (LEM), (φ ∨ ¬ φ), doesn't always hold. Specifically, it holds if we have a proof for φ or we have a proof for ¬ φ, but it doesn't necessarily hold if we don't have a proof of either one. There is also no rule for double negation elimination. Brouwer observed in 1908 that LEM was abstracted from finite situations, then extended without justification to statements about infinite collections.

Contents of this page Overview of intuitionistic logic Overview of this work The axioms Some theorems How to intuitionize classical proofs Metamath Proof Explorer cross reference Bibliography

Related pages Table of Contents and Theorem List Most Recent Proofs (this mirror) (latest) Bibliographic Cross-Reference Definition List ASCII Equivalents for Text-Only Browsers Metamath database iset.mm (ASCII file) External links GitHub repository [accessed 06-Jan-2018]

Overview of intuitionistic logic

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Overview of this work

(By Gérard Lang, 7-May-2018)

Mario Carneiro's work (Metamath database) "iset.mm" provides in Metamath a development of "set.mm" whose eventual aim is to show how many of the theorems of set theory and mathematics that can be derived from classical first order logic can also be derived from a weaker system called "intuitionistic logic." To achieve this task, iset.mm adds (or substitutes) intuitionistic axioms for a number of the classical logical axioms of set.mm.

Among these new axioms, the 6 first (ax-ia1, ax-ia2, ax-ia3, ax-io, ax-in1 and ax-in2), when added to ax-1, ax-2 and ax-mp, allow for the development of intuitionistic propositional logic. We omit the classical axiom ((¬ 𝜑 → ¬ 𝜓) → (𝜓 → 𝜑)) (which is ax-3 in set.mm). Each of our new axioms is a theorem of classical propositional logic, but ax-3 cannot be derived from them. Similarly, other basic classical theorems, like the third middle excluded or the equivalence of a proposition with its double negation, cannot be derived in intuitionistic propositional calculus. Glivenko showed that a proposition φ is a theorem of classical propositional calculus if and only if ¬¬φ is a theorem of intuitionistic propositional calculus.

The next 4 new axioms (ax-ial, ax-i5r, ax-ie1 and ax-ie2) together with the set.mm axioms ax-4, ax-5, ax-7 and ax-gen do not mention equality or distinct variables.

The ax-i9 axiom is just a slight variation of the classical ax-9. The classical axiom ax-12 is strengthened into first ax-i12 and then ax-bnd (two results which would be fairly readily equivalent to ax-12 classically but which do not follow from ax-12, at least not in an obvious way, in intuitionistic logic). The substitution of ax-i9, ax-i12, and ax-bnd for ax-9 and ax-12 and the inclusion of ax-8, ax-10, ax-11, ax-13, ax-14 and ax-17 allow for the development of the intuitionistic predicate calculus.

Each of the new axioms is a theorem of classical first order logic with equality. But some axioms of classical first order logic with equality, like ax-3, cannot be derived in the intuitionistic predicate calculus.

One of the major interests of the intuitionistic predicate calculus is that its use can be considered as a realization of the program of the constructivist philosophical view of mathematics.

The axioms

As with the classical axioms we have propositional logic and predicate logic.

The axioms of intuitionistic propositional logic consist of some of the axioms from classical propositional logic, plus additional axioms for the operation of the 'and', 'or' and 'not' connectives.

Axioms of intuitionistic propositional calculus

Axiom Simp	ax-1	⊢ (φ → (ψ → φ))
Axiom Frege	ax-2	⊢ ((φ → (ψ → χ)) → ((φ → ψ) → (φ → χ)))
Rule of Modus Ponens	ax-mp	⊢ φ   &   ⊢ φ → ψ   =>   ⊢ψ
Left 'and' elimination	ax-ia1	⊢ ((φ ∧ ψ) → φ)
Right 'and' elimination	ax-ia2	⊢ ((φ ∧ ψ) → ψ)
'And' introduction	ax-ia3	⊢ (φ → (ψ → (φ ∧ ψ)))
Definition of 'or'	ax-io	⊢ (((φ ∨ χ) → ψ) ↔ ((φ → ψ) ∧ (χ → ψ)))
'Not' introduction	ax-in1	⊢ ((φ → ¬ φ) → ¬ φ)
'Not' elimination	ax-in2	⊢ (¬ φ → (φ → ψ))

Unlike in classical propositional logic, 'and' and 'or' are not readily defined in terms of implication and 'not'. In particular, φ ∨ ψ is not equivalent to ¬ φ → ψ, nor is φ → ψ equivalent to ¬ φ ∨ ψ, nor is φ ∧ ψ equivalent to ¬ (φ → ¬ ψ).

The ax-in1 axiom is a form of proof by contradiction which does hold intuitionistically. That is, if φ implies a contradiction (such as its own negation), then one can conclude ¬ φ. By contrast, assuming ¬ φ and then deriving a contradiction only serves to prove ¬ ¬ φ, which in intuitionistic logic is not the same as φ.

The biconditional can be defined as the conjunction of two implications, as in dfbi2 and df-bi.

Predicate logic adds set variables (individual variables) and the ability to quantify them with ∀ (for-all) and ∃ (there-exists). Unlike in classical logic, ∃ cannot be defined in terms of ∀. As in classical logic, we also add = for equality (which is key to how we handle substitution in metamath) and ∈ (which for current purposes can just be thought of as an arbitrary predicate, but which will later come to mean set membership).

Our axioms are based on the classical set.mm predicate logic axioms, but adapted for intuitionistic logic, chiefly by adding additional axioms for ∃ and also changing some aspects of how we handle negations.

Axioms of intuitionistic predicate logic

Axiom of Specialization	ax-4	⊢ (∀xφ → φ)
Axiom of Quantified Implication	ax-5	⊢ (∀x(φ → ψ) → (∀xφ → ∀xψ))
The converse of ax-5o	ax-i5r	⊢ ((∀xφ → ∀xψ) → ∀x(∀xφ → ψ))
Axiom of Quantifier Commutation	ax-7	⊢ (∀x∀yφ → ∀y∀xφ)
Rule of Generalization	ax-gen	⊢ φ   =>    ⊢ ∀xφ
x is bound in ∀xφ	ax-ial	⊢ (∀xφ → ∀x∀xφ)
x is bound in ∃xφ	ax-ie1	⊢ (∃xφ → ∀x∃xφ)
Define existential quantification	ax-ie2	⊢ (∀x(ψ → ∀xψ) → (∀x(φ → ψ) ↔ (∃xφ → ψ)))
Axiom of Equality	ax-8	⊢ (x = y → (x = z → y = z))
Axiom of Existence	ax-i9	⊢ ∃x x = y
Axiom of Quantifier Substitution	ax-10	⊢ (∀x x = y → ∀y y = x)
Axiom of Variable Substitution	ax-11	⊢ (x = y → (∀yφ → ∀x(x = y → φ)))
Axiom of Quantifier Introduction	ax-i12	⊢ (∀z z = x ∨ (∀z z = y ∨ ∀z(x = y → ∀z x = y)))
Axiom of Bundling	ax-bnd	⊢ (∀z z = x ∨ (∀z z = y ∨ ∀x∀z(x = y → ∀z x = y)))
Left Membership Equality	ax-13	⊢ (x = y → (x ∈ z → y ∈ z))
Right Membership Equality	ax-14	⊢ (x = y → (z ∈ x → z ∈ y))
Distinctness	ax-17	⊢ (φ → ∀xφ), where x does not occur in φ

Set theory uses the formalism of propositional and predicate calculus to assert properties of arbitrary mathematical objects called "sets." A set can be an element of another set, and this relationship is indicated by the e. symbol. Starting with the simplest mathematical object, called the empty set, set theory builds up more and more complex structures whose existence follows from the axioms, eventually resulting in extremely complicated sets that we identify with the real numbers and other familiar mathematical objects. These axioms were developed in response to Russell's Paradox, a discovery that revolutionized the foundations of mathematics and logic.

In the IZF axioms that follow, all set variables are assumed to be distinct. If you click on their links you will see the explicit distinct variable conditions.

Intuitionistic Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory (IZF)

Axiom of Extensionality	ax-ext	⊢ (∀z(z ∈ x ↔ z ∈ y) → x = y)
Axiom of Collection	ax-coll	⊢ (∀x ∈ 𝑎 ∃yφ → ∃𝑏∀x ∈ 𝑎 ∃y ∈ 𝑏 φ)
Axiom of Separation	ax-sep	⊢ ∃y∀x(x ∈ y ↔ (x ∈ z ∧ φ))
Axiom of Power Sets	ax-pow	⊢ ∃y∀z(∀w(w ∈ z → w ∈ x) → z ∈ y)
Axiom of Pairing	ax-pr	⊢ ∃z∀w((w = x ∨ w = y) → w ∈ z)
Axiom of Union	ax-un	⊢ ∃y∀z(∃w(z ∈ w ∧ w ∈ x) → z ∈ y)
Axiom of Set Induction	ax-setind	⊢ (∀𝑎(∀y ∈ 𝑎 [y / 𝑎]φ → φ) → ∀𝑎φ)
Axiom of Infinity	ax-iinf	⊢ ∃x(∅ ∈ x ∧ ∀y(y ∈ x → suc y ∈ x))

We develop set theory based on the Intuitionistic Zermelo-Fraenkel (IZF) system, mostly following the IZF axioms as laid out in [Crosilla]. Constructive Zermelo-Fraenkel (CZF), also described in Crosilla, is not as easy to formalize in metamath because the Axiom of Restricted Separation would require us to develop the ability to classify formulas as bounded formulas, similar to the machinery we have built up for asserting on whether variables are free in formulas.

A Theorem Sampler   

From a psychological point of view, learning constructive mathematics is agonizing, for it requires one to first unlearn certain deeply ingrained intuitions and habits acquired during classical mathematical training.
—Andrej Bauer

Listed here are some examples of starting points for your journey through the maze. Some are stated just as they would be in a non-constructive context; others are here to highlight areas which look different constructively. You should study some simple proofs from propositional calculus until you get the hang of it. Then try some predicate calculus and finally set theory. The Theorem List shows the complete set of theorems in the database. You may also find the Bibliographic Cross-Reference useful.

Propositional calculus

Law of identity

Praeclarum theorema

Contraposition introduction

Double negation introduction

Triple negation

Definition of exclusive or

Negation and the false constant

Predicate calculus

Existential and universal quantifier swap

Existentially quantified implication

x = x

Definition of proper substitution

Double existential uniqueness

Set theory

Commutative law for union

A basic relationship between class and wff variables

Two ways of saying "is a set"

The ZF axiom of foundation implies excluded middle

Russell's paradox

Ordinal trichotomy implies excluded middle

Mathematical (finite) induction

Peano's postulates for arithmetic: 1 2 3 4 5

Two natural numbers are either equal or not equal (a special case of the law of the excluded middle which we can prove).

A natural number is either zero or a successor

The axiom of choice implies excluded middle

...watch this space as we build out more of set theory

How to intuitionize classical proofs   

For the student or master of classical mathematics, constructive mathematics can be baffling. One can get over some of the intial hurdles of understanding how constructive mathematics works and why it might be interesting by reading [Bauer] but that work does little to explain in concrete terms how to write proofs in intuitionistic logic. Fortunately, metamath helps with one of the biggest hurdles: noticing when one is even using the law of the excluded middle or the axiom of choice. But suppose you have a classical proof from the Metamath Proof Explorer and it fails to verify when you copy it over to the Intuitionistic Logic Explorer. What then? Here are some rules of thumb in converting classical proofs to intuitionistic ones.

• If you see case elimination ( pm2.61 or its variants) you'll probably end up with two theorems for the two cases. In particular, if the cases were A e. _V and -. A e. _V you probably just care about the A e. _V case.
• Non-empty almost always needs to be changed to inhabited (those terms are defined at n0rf).
• If the original proof relied on propositional/predicate logic which isn't a theorem of intuitionistic logic, maybe there is a way of expressing the logic more directly. This is perhaps the hardest one to put in cookbook form: you might need to try some things and see if anything works.
• If the original proof relied on df-ex so that it could prove a theorem for A. and then get E. for free (or vice versa), instead go look at the original proof and try to come up the analogues to each step for the other quantifier (for example, cbvrexcsf, sbcrext, rexxpf).
• If you are dealing with a definition, try to find the best constructive definition from the literature ([HoTT] book, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, [Bauer], etc). Once you pick a definition, that'll affect the proofs which rely on that definition.
• If there is case elimination on whether variables are distinct, most of the time you just need the variant with distinct variables. Sometimes you can then remove the constraint with a temporary variable (e.g. the various sbco2* variants, nfralya, r19.3rm).
• Sometimes one direction of a biconditional holds, or subset holds instead of equality. You might be able to keep the easy direction and worry about the other one later.
• If there is case elimination sometimes only one of the two cases is possible. For example, in mosubopt the rest of the formula being proved constrains which case matters.
• If you need an additional condition (for example, because the original proof used case elimination) and you are proving a biconditional, consider whether both sides of the biconditional imply the condition. If so, you'll be able to prove the biconditional with that condition as an antecedent, and then use pm5.21nii or one of its variants to remove the antecedent (example: elxp4).
• If your proof relies on dveeq2 try dveeq2or and likewise for the other things downstream of ax-i12 or ax-bnd.
• If you have a disjunction, be reluctant to turn it into an implication using ord and the like. Instead, show that each disjunct implies what you are trying to prove and use jaoi to join those two implications into something which can hook up to the disjunction.
• Disjunctive syllogism holds in intuitionistic logic and we state it a few ways (for example orel1 and ecased) but we don't have a wide variety of convenience theorems. Unless we add those, you'll use ord or something similar followed by mpd or something similar. This may add a few steps but they are straightforward ones.
• If your proof is doing tricky things perhaps in the interest of shortness, try just expanding the definitions and applying logic in a straightforward way. See if this gets you a working (although perhaps longer) proof.
• If your proof relies on a biconditional in set.mm which isn't in iset.mm, see if one direction is in iset.mm and see which direction your proof is using. For example 19.35-1 or exnalim.
• If you are doing things with inhabited classes (beyond just applying existing inhabited class theorems), you may be able to dig up some predicate logic you haven't used in a while (e.g. raaan).
• Consider the possibility of giving up. Some things just won't have intuitionistic proofs. The more it looks like excluded middle or other non-intuitionistic statements, the more likely you are dealing with one of these. But it can be hard to have good intuition about this. In some cases it may be possible to ask "can I use this statement to prove 'ph or not ph' for an arbitrary proposition" (see ordtriexmid for example ), but this is not always an easy technique to apply.
• Switching between 2th and 2false might help (e.g. dfnul2, dfnul3, rab0).
• In many cases statements which are equivalent in classical logic become several non-equivalent statements (e.g. exclusive or, ordinals, non-empty versus inhabited, apartness versus negated equality). This is usually a good place to look for a literature reference, but don't be afraid to change the statement being proved to "what you really meant is X" as appropriate.
• If a statement has multiple equivalences in set.mm (e.g. mo2 and mo3 , or dffun2 and dffun3 ) and only some of them in iset.mm, sometimes a pretty similar proof will work (that is, which one to use in the original proof may have been a fairly arbitrary choice).
• A number of theorems related to functions (especially ovex and fvex ) in set.mm perform case elimination based on whether we are evaluating the function within its domain or outside it. The iset.mm replacements (fnovex and funfvex) only work within the domain. This is rarely a problem but often means that logic must be rearranged, for example by changing rexlimivw to rexlimdva (example: ovelrn or indeed most uses of fnovex and funfvex).
• With excluded middle, (/) e. A and A =/= (/) are equivalent (where A is an ordinal). In such theorems, (/) e. A is generally the more interesting condition constructively.
• Reverse closure in set.mm uses excluded middle (for example ovrcl or ndmfvrcl ). In iset.mm we add more conditions that we are evaluating operations within their domains (for example set.mm's addasspi versus iset.mm's addasspig in which conditions such as A e. N. are added, or set.mm's ltbtwnnq versus iset.mm's ltbtwnnqq, in which E.x is changed to E.x e. Q.).
• If you get stuck, ask! (for example in a GitHub issue or on the mailing list). We have a number of contributors who have experience in constructive mathematics in general, or iset.mm in particular, and one of the best things about doing/learning mathematics in metamath is the collaborative nature of how we develop it.

Metamath Proof Explorer cross reference   

This is a list of theorems from the Metamath Proof Explorer (which assumes the law of the excluded middle throughout) which we do not have in the Intuitionistic Logic Explorer (generally because they are not provable without the law of the excluded middle, although some could be proved but aren't for a variety of reasons), together with the closest replacements.

set.mm	iset.mm	notes
ax-3 , con4d , con34b , necon4bd	con3	The form of contraposition which removes negation does not hold in intutionistic logic.
pm2.18	pm2.01	See for example [Bauer] who uses the terminology "proof of negation" versus "proof by contradiction" to distinguish these.
notnotrd , notnotri , notnot2 , notnot	notnot1	Double negation introduction holds but not double negation elimination.
mt3d	mtod
nyl2	nsyl
pm2.61 , pm2.61d , pm2.61d1 , pm2.61d2 , pm2.61i , pm2.61ii , pm2.61nii , pm2.61iii , pm2.61ian , pm2.61dan , pm2.61ddan , pm2.61dda , pm2.61ine , pm2.61ne , pm2.61dne , pm2.61dane , pm2.61da2ne , pm2.61da3ne , pm2.61iine	none
df-or , pm4.64 , pm2.54 , orri , orrd	pm2.53, ori, ord
pm4.63	pm3.2im
iman	imanim
annim	annimim
oran	oranim
ianor	pm3.14
ecase3d	none	This is a form of case elimination.
dedlem0b	dedlemb
3ianor	3ianorr
df-ex	exalim
alex	alexim
exnal	exnalim
alexn	alexnim
exanali	exanaliim
19.35	19.35-1
19.30	none
19.36	19.36-1
19.37	19.37-1
19.32	19.32r
19.31	19.31r
exdistrf	exdistrfor
exmo	exmonim
mo2	mo2r, mo3
rexnal	rexnalim
dfral2	ralexim
dfrex2	rexalim
rexanali	none
nrexralim	none
nfrald	nfraldxy, nfraldya
nfrexd	nfrexdxy, nfrexdya
nfral	nfralxy, nfralya
nfra2	nfra1, nfralya
nfrex	nfrexxy, nfrexya
r19.30	none
ralcom2	ralcom
sspss	sspssr
n0f	n0rf
n0	n0r
neq0	neq0r
reximdva0	reximdva0m
r19.45zv	r19.45mv
dfif2	df-if
ifsb	none
dfif4	none	Unused in set.mm
dfif5	none	Unused in set.mm
ifnot	none
ifan	none
ifor	none
ifeq1da, ifeq2da	none
ifclda	none
ifeqda	none
elimif , ifbothda , ifboth , ifid , eqif , ifval , elif , ifel , ifcl , ifcld , ifeqor , 2if2 , ifcomnan , csbif , csbifgOLD	none
dedth , dedth2h , dedth3h , dedth4h , dedth2v , dedth3v , dedth4v , elimhyp , elimhyp2v , elimhyp3v , elimhyp4v , elimel , elimdhyp , keephyp , keephyp2v , keephyp3v , keepel , ifex , ifexg	none	Even in set.mm, the weak deduction theorem is discouraged in favor of theorems in deduction form.
trintss	trintssm
trint0	trint0m
moabex	euabex	In general, most of the set.mm E! theorems still hold, but a decent number of the E* ones get caught up on "there are two cases: the set exists or it does not"
snex	snexg, snex	The iset.mm version of snex has an additional hypothesis
opex	opexg, opex	The iset.mm version of opex has additional hypotheses
df-so	df-iso	Although we define Or to describe a weakly linear order (such as real numbers), there are some orders which are also trichotomous, for example nntri3or, pitri3or, and nqtri3or.
sotric	sotricim	One direction, for any weak linear order.
	sotritric	For a trichotomous order.
	nntri2	For the specific order _E Or om
	pitric	For the specific order <N Or N.
	nqtric	For the specific order <Q Or Q.
sotrieq	sotritrieq	For a trichotomous order
sotrieq2	see sotrieq and then apply ioran
issoi	issod, ispod	Many of the set.mm usages of issoi don't carry over, so there is less need for this convenience theorem.
isso2i	issod	Presumably this could be proved if we need it.
df-fr and all theorems using Fr	none	Because iset.mm assumes ax-setind without reluctance, all sets are well-founded. We could adopt a treatment more like set.mm if people want to investigate set theories which are constructive but which do not assume ax-setind.
df-we (and all theorems using We)	none	Ordering is moderately different in constructive logic, so if there is anything along these lines worth doing it will be different from set.mm.
tz7.7	none
ordelssne	none
ordelpss	none
ordsseleq	onelss, eqimss	Taken together, onelss and eqimss represent the reverse direction of the biconditional from ordsseleq
ordtri3or	nntri3or	Ordinal trichotomy implies the law of the excluded middle as shown in ordtriexmid.
ordtri2	nntri2	ordtri2 for all ordinals presumably implies excluded middle although we don't have a specific proof analogous to ordtriexmid.
ordtri3 , ordtri4 , ordtri2or2 , ordtri2or3 , dford2	none	Ordinal trichotomy implies the law of the excluded middle as shown in ordtriexmid. We don't have similar proofs for every variation of of trichotomy but most of them are presumably powerful enough to imply excluded middle.
ordtri1 , ontri1 , onssneli , onssnel2i	ssnel, nntri1	ssnel is a trichotomy-like theorem which does hold, although it is an implication whereas ordtri1 is a biconditional. nntri1 is biconditional, but just for natural numbers.
ordtr2 , ontr2	none	See also ordelpss in set.mm
ordtr3	none	This is weak linearity of ordinals, which presumably implies excluded middle by ordsoexmid.
ordtri2or	none	Implies excluded middle as shown at ordtri2orexmid.
ord0eln0 , on0eln0	ne0i, nn0eln0
nsuceq0	nsuceq0g
ordsssuc	trsucss
ordequn	none	If you know which ordinal is larger, you can achieve a similar result via theorems such as oneluni or ssequn1.
ordun	onun2
dmxpid	dmxpm
relimasn	imasng
opswap	opswapg
cnvso	cnvsom
iotaex	euiotaex
fvex	funfvex	when evaluating a function within its domain
	fvexg, fvex	when the function is a set and is evaluated at a set
	relrnfvex	when evaluating a relation whose range is a set
	1stexg, 2ndexg	for the functions 1st and 2nd
ndmfv	ndmfvg	The -. A e. _V case is fvprc.
elfvdm	relelfvdm
funiunfv	fniunfv, funiunfvdm
funiunfvf	funiunfvdmf
eluniima	eluniimadm
riotaex	riotacl
nfriotad	nfriotadxy
csbriota , csbriotagOLD	csbriotag
riotaxfrd	none	Although it may be intuitionizable, it is lightly used in set.mm.
ovex	fnovex	Sometimes or fvexg or relrnfvex may work.
ov3	ovi3	Although set.mm's ov3 could be proved, it is only used a few places in set.mm, and in iset.mm those places need the modified form found in ovi3.
oprssdm	none
ndmovg , ndmov , ndmovcl , ndmovrcl , ndmovcom , ndmovass , ndmovdistr , ndmovord , and ndmovordi	none	Although these theorems are moderately widely used in set.mm, in many cases they are being used for case elimination and the set.mm proofs are not intuitionistic. We might bring back some of them later (which may have conditions that the sets exist, but aren't in the domain), but maybe we'll find a way to avoid them.
caov4	caov4d	Note that caov4d has a closure hypothesis.
caov411	caov411d	Note that caov411d has a closure hypothesis.
caov42	caov42d	Note that caov42d has a closure hypothesis.
caovdir	caovdird	caovdird adds some constraints about where the operations are evaluated.
caovdilem	caovdilemd
caovlem2	caovlem2d
caovmo	caovimo
ordeleqon	none
ssonprc	none	not provable (we conjecture), but interesting enough to intuitionize anyway. U.A = On -> A e/ V is provable, and (B e. On /\ U.A C_ B) -> A e. V is provable. (Why isn't df-pss stated so that the set difference is inhabited? If so, you could prove U.A C. On -> A e. V.)
onint	none	Conjectured to not be provable without excluded middle. If you apply onint to a pair you can derive totality of the order.
onint0	none	Thought to be "trivially not intuitionistic", and it is not clear if there is an alternate way to state it that is true. If the empty set is in A then of course |^| A = (/), but the converse seems difficult. I don't know so much about the structure of the ordinals without linearity,
onssmin, onminesb, onminsb	none	Conjectured to not be provable without excluded middle, for the same reason as onint.
oninton	none yet	This one (with non-empty changed to inhabited) I think can still be salvaged though. From the fact that it is inhabited you get that it exists, and is a subset of an ordinal x. It is an intersection of transitive sets so it is transitive, and of course all its members are members of x so they are transitive too. And E. Fr A falls to subsets.
onintrab, onintrab2	none yet	The set.mm proof uses oninton.
oneqmin	none	Falls as written because it implies onint, but it might be useful to keep the reverse direction for subsets that do have a minimum.
onminex	none yet	falls as written because it implies onint, but it might be useful to keep the reverse direction for subsets that do have a minimum.
onmindif2	none	Conjectured to not be provable without excluded middle.
onmindif2	none	Conjectured to not be provable without excluded middle.
ordpwsuc	ordpwsucss	See the ordpwsucss comment for discussion of the succcessor-like properites of ( ~PA i^i On). Full ordpwsuc implies excluded middle as seen at ordpwsucexmid.
ordsucelsuc	onsucelsucr, nnsucelsuc	The converse of onsucelsucr implies excluded middle, as shown at onsucelsucexmid.
ordsucsssuc	onsucsssucr, nnsucsssuc	The converse of onsucsssucr implies excluded middle, as shown at onsucsssucexmid.
ordsucuniel	sucunielr	Full ordsucuniel implies excluded middle, as shown at ordsucunielexmid.
ordsucun	none yet	Conjectured to be provable in the reverse direction, but not the forward direction (implies some order totality).
ordunpr	none	Presumably not provable without excluded middle.
ordunel	none	Conjectured to not be provable (ordunel implies ordsucun).
onsucuni, ordsucuni	none	Conjectured to not be provable without excluded middle.
orduniorsuc	none	Presumably not provable.
ordunisuc	onunisuci, unisuc, unisucg
orduniss2	onuniss2
onsucuni2	none yet	Conjectured to be provable.
0elsuc	none yet	Conjectured to be provable.
onuniorsuci	none	Conjectured to not be provable without excluded middle.
onuninsuci, ordununsuc	none	Conjectured to be provable in the forward direction but not the reverse one.
onsucssi	none yet	Conjectured to be provable.
nlimsucg	none yet	Conjectured to be provable.
ordunisuc2	ordunisuc2r	The forward direction is conjectured to imply excluded middle. Here is a sketch of the proposed proof. Let om' be the set of all finite iterations of suc' A = ( ~PA i^i On) on (/). (We can formalize this proof but not until we have om and at least finite induction.) Then om' = U. om' because if x e. om' then x = suc'^n (/) for some n, and then x C_ suc'^n (/) implies x e. suc'^(n+1) (/) e. om' so x e. U. om'. Now supposing the theorem, we know that A. x e. om' suc x e. om', so in particular 2o e. om', that is, 2o = suc'^n (/) for some n. (Note that 1o = suc' (/) - see pw0.) For n = 0 and n = 1 this is clearly false, and for n = m+3 we have 1o e. suc' suc' (/) , so 2o C_ suc' suc' (/), so 2o e. suc' suc' suc' (/) C_ suc' suc' suc' suc'^m (/) = 2o, contradicting ordirr. Thus 2o = suc' suc' (/) = suc' 1o. Applying this to X = {x e. { (/) } | ph } we have X C_ 1o implies X e. suc' 1o = 2o and hence X = (/) \/ X = 1o, and LEM follows (by ordtriexmidlem2 for X = (/) and rabsnt as seen in the onsucsssucexmid proof for X = 1o).
ordzsl, onzsl, dflim3, nlimon	none
dflim4	df-ilim	We conjecture that dflim4 is not equivalent to df-ilim.
limsuc	none yet	Conjectured to be provable.
limsssuc	none yet	Conjectured to be provable.
tfinds	tfis3
1stval	1stvalg
2ndval	2ndvalg
1stnpr	none	May be intuitionizable, but very lightly used in set.mm.
2ndnpr	none	May be intuitionizable, but very lightly used in set.mm.
brtpos	brtposg
ottpos	ottposg
ovtpos	ovtposg
pwuninel	pwuninel2	The set.mm proof of pwuninel uses case elimination.
iunonOLD	iunon
smofvon2	smofvon2dm
tfr1	tfri1
tfr2	tfri2
tfr3	tfri3
tfr2b , recsfnon , recsval	none	These transfinite recursion theorems are lightly used in set.mm.
df-rdg	df-irdg	This definition combines the successor and limit cases (rather than specifying them as separate cases in a way which relies on excluded middle). In the words of [Crosilla], p. "Set-theoretic principles incompatible with intuitionistic logic", "we can still define many of the familiar set-theoretic operations by transfinite recursion on ordinals (see Aczel and Rathjen 2001, Section 4.2). This is fine as long as the definitions by transfinite recursion do not make case distinctions such as in the classical ordinal cases of successor and limit."
rdgfnon	rdgifnon
ordge1n0	ordge1n0im, ordgt0ge1
ondif1	dif1o	In set.mm, ondif1 is used for Cantor Normal Form
ondif2 , dif20el	none	The set.mm proof is not intuitionistic
brwitnlem	none	The set.mm proof is not intuitionistic
om0r	om0, nnm0r
om00	nnm00
om00el	none
suc11reg	suc11g
frfnom	frecfnom	frecfnom adopts the frec notation and adds conditions on the characteristic function and initial value.
fr0g	frec0g	frec0g adopts the frec notation and adds a condition on the characteristic function.
frsuc	frecsuc	frecsuc adopts the frec notation and adds conditions on the characteristic function and initial value.
om0x	om0
oaord1	none yet
oaword	oawordi	The other direction presumably could be proven but isn't yet.
omwordi	nnmword	The set.mm proof of omwordi relies on case elimination.
omword1	nnmword
nnawordex	nnaordex	nnawordex is only used a few places in set.mm
swoso	none	Unused in set.mm.
ecdmn0	ecdmn0m
erdisj, qsdisj, qsdisj2, uniinqs	none	These could presumably be restated to be provable, but they are lightly used in set.mm
xpider	xpiderm
iiner	iinerm
riiner	riinerm
brecop2	none	This is a form of reverse closure and uses excluded middle in its proof.
erov , erov2	none	Unused in set.mm.
eceqoveq	none	Unused in set.mm.
2pwuninel	2pwuninelg
ax-reg , axreg2 , zfregcl	ax-setind	ax-reg implies excluded middle as seen at regexmid
addcompi	addcompig
addasspi	addasspig
mulcompi	mulcompig
mulasspi	mulasspig
distrpi	distrpig
addcanpi	addcanpig
mulcanpi	mulcanpig
addnidpi	addnidpig
ltapi	ltapig
ltmpi	ltmpig
nlt1pi	nlt1pig
indpi	finds	Although indpi presumably could be proved, it is lightly used in set.mm
df-nq	df-nqqs
df-nq	df-nqqs
df-erq	none	Not needed given df-nqqs
df-plq	df-plqqs
df-mq	df-mqqs
df-1nq	df-1nqqs
df-ltnq	df-ltnqqs
elpqn	none	Not needed given df-nqqs
ordpipq	ordpipqqs
addnqf	dmaddpq, addclnq	It should be possible to prove that +Q is a function, but so far there hasn't been a need to do so.
addcomnq	addcomnqg
mulcomnq	mulcomnqg
mulassnq	mulassnqg
recmulnq	recmulnqg
ltanq	ltanqg
ltmnq	ltmnqg
ltexnq	ltexnqq
archnq	archnqq
df-np	df-inp
df-1p	df-i1p
df-plp	df-iplp
df-ltp	df-iltp
elnp , elnpi	elinp
prn0	prml, prmu
prpssnq	prssnql, prssnqu
elprnq	elprnql, elprnqu
prcdnq	prcdnql, prcunqu
prub	prubl
prnmax	prnmaxl
npomex	none
prnmadd	prnmaddl
genpv	genipv
genpcd	genpcdl
genpnmax	genprndl
ltrnq	ltrnqg, ltrnqi
genpcl	addclpr, mulclpr
genpass	genpassg
addclprlem1	addnqprllem, addnqprulem
addclprlem2	addnqprl, addnqpru
plpv	plpvlu
mpv	mpvlu
mulclprlem	mulnqprl, mulnqpru
addcompr	addcomprg
addasspr	addassprg
mulcompr	mulcomprg
mulasspr	mulassprg
distrlem1pr	distrlem1prl, distrlem1pru
distrlem4pr	distrlem4prl, distrlem4pru
distrlem5pr	distrlem5prl, distrlem5pru
distrpr	distrprg
ltprord	ltprordil	There hasn't yet been a need to investigate versions which are biconditional or which involve proper subsets.
psslinpr	ltsopr
prlem934	prarloc2
ltaddpr2	ltaddpr
ltexprlem1 , ltexprlem2 , ltexprlem3 , ltexprlem4	none	See the lemmas for ltexpri generally.
ltexprlem5	ltexprlempr
ltexprlem6	ltexprlemfl, ltexprlemfu
ltexprlem7	ltexprlemrl, ltexprlemru
ltapr	ltaprg
addcanpr	addcanprg
prlem936	prmuloc2
reclem2pr	recexprlempr
reclem3pr	recexprlem1ssl, recexprlem1ssu
reclem4pr	recexprlemss1l, recexprlemss1u, recexprlemex
supexpr , suplem1pr , suplem2pr	none	The Least Upper Bound property for sets of real numbers does not hold, in general, without excluded middle.
mulcmpblnrlem	mulcmpblnrlemg
ltsrpr	ltsrprg
dmaddsr , dmmulsr	none	Although these presumably could be proved in a way similar to dmaddpq and dmmulpq (in fact dmaddpqlem would seem to be easily generalizable to anything of the form (( S X. T) /. R)), we haven't yet had a need to do so.
addcomsr	addcomsrg
addasssr	addasssrg
mulcomsr	mulcomsrg
mulasssr	mulasssrg
distrsr	distrsrg
ltasr	ltasrg
sqgt0sr	mulgt0sr	The A <R 0R case would also intuitionize (looks like this part of set.mm's sqgt0sr proof would intuitionize well), but for the theorem as a whole, "not equal to zero" would need to be changed to "apart from zero".
recexsr	recexsrlem	This would follow from sqgt0sr (as in the set.mm proof of recexsr), but as noted there "not equal to zero" would need to be changed to "apart from zero".
mappsrpr , ltpsrpr , map2psrpr	none	Although variants of these theorems could be intuitionized, in set.mm they are only used for supremum theorems, so we can consider this in more detail when we tackle what kind of supremum theorems to prove.
supsrlem , supsr	none	The Least Upper Bound property for sets of real numbers does not hold, in general, without excluded middle.
axaddf , ax-addf , axmulf , ax-mulf	none	Because these are described as deprecated in set.mm, we haven't figured out what would be involved in proving them for iset.mm.
ax1ne0 , ax-1ne0	ax0lt1, ax-0lt1
axrrecex , ax-rrecex	axprecex, ax-precex
axpre-lttri , ax-pre-lttri	axpre-ltirr, axpre-ltwlin, ax-pre-ltirr, ax-pre-ltwlin
axpre-sup , ax-pre-sup , axsup	none yet	The Least Upper Bound property for sets of real numbers does not hold, in general, without excluded middle. If we want a set of axioms for real numbers which allows us to avoid construction-dependent theorems beyond this point, we'll need a modified Least Upper Bound property, a statement concerning Dedekind cuts or something similar, or some other axiom(s).
elimne0	none	Even in set.mm, the weak deduction theorem is discouraged in favor of theorems in deduction form.
xrltnle	xrlenlt
ssxr	df-xr	Lightly used in set.mm
ltnle , ltnlei , ltnled	lenlt
lttri2 , lttri3 , lttri4 , letri3	none	Real number trichotomy is not provable.
leloe , eqlelt , leloei , leloed , eqleltd	none
leltne , leltned	none
lelttr , lelttri , lelttrd	none yet	This should be provable, as it is part of Definition 11.2.7(vi) of [HoTT], p. (varies). But the set.mm proof does not work as-is.
ltletr , ltletri , ltletrd	none yet	This should be provable, as it is part of Definition 11.2.7(vi) of [HoTT], p. (varies). But the set.mm proof does not work as-is.
ltneOLD	ltne
letric , letrii , letrid	none	A form of real number trichotomy
ltlen , ltleni , ltlend	none
ltadd2 , ltadd2i , ltadd2d , ltadd2dd	none yet	This will be provable based on additive inverse once we have addcom and a few other prerequisites. We'll probably end up moving it down to the "Ordering on reals (cont.)" section.
ne0gt0	none	We presumably could prove this if we changed "not equal to zero" to "apart from zero".
lecasei , lelttric , ltlecasei	none	These are real number trichotomy
lttri2i	none	This can be read as "two real numbers are non-equal if and only if they are apart" which relies on excluded middle
lttri3i	none	The (-. A < B /\ -. B < A) -> A = B direction (which can also be read as "if two real numbers are not apart, then they are equal) is proved via trichotomy in set.mm
letri3i	none	Equivalent to lttri3i by lenlt
le2tri3i	none	This is an elaborated version of letri3i
ne0gt0d , lttrid , lttri2d , lttri3d , lttri4d , letri3d	none	These are real number trichotomy
dedekind , dedekindle	none
mul02lem1	none	The one use in set.mm is not needed in iset.mm.
negex	negcl

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