Why Brouwer was right in suggesting that Hilbert's Law of the Excluded Middle needed qualification
Abstract
We reproduce Hilbert's axiomatic formalisation of Number Theory, and argue that his enunciation of the Law of the Excluded Middle is inconsistent with a Turing-verifiable model of the axioms under the standard interpretation.
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