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@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ Table of contents:
3.1. Weak excluded middle
-3.2. Gödel-Dummet axiom and right distributivity of implication over
- disjunction
+3.2. Gödel-Dummett axiom and right distributivity of implication over
+ disjunction
3 3. Independence of general premises and drinker's paradox
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ End Proof_irrelevance_CCI.
(** We show the following increasing in the strength of axioms:
- weak excluded-middle
- - right distributivity of implication over disjunction and Gödel-Dummet axiom
+ - right distributivity of implication over disjunction and Gödel-Dummett axiom
- independence of general premises and drinker's paradox
- excluded-middle
*)
@@ -533,7 +533,11 @@ Proof.
Qed.
(** Independence of general premises is weaker than (generalized)
- excluded middle *)
+ excluded middle
+
+Remark: generalized excluded middle is preferred here to avoid relying on
+the "ex falso quodlibet" property (i.e. [False -> forall A, A])
+*)
Definition generalized_excluded_middle :=
forall A B:Prop, A \/ (A -> B).