Abstract

I think without doubt that the thorniest problem for one who wishes to transfer something resembling the intuitionist account of the meanings of mathematical statements to the whole of discourse is what account he can give of tensed statements. (Dummett (1978), p. 368) Let atomic sentences be sentences not containing any of the usual operators of first-order predicate calculi, and let compound sentences be sentences formed from such atomic sentences by applying one or more of the usual operators of first-order predicate calculi. So far, we cannot classify tensed sentences like

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