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    1. …in reply to @matthematician
      @matthematician @linguanumerate Logical equivalence here also assumes the law of the excluded middle, which while common, isn't assumed in constructive mathematics.
  1. …in reply to @StevenXClontz
    @matthematician @linguanumerate For this reason I'll usually attempt to write a proof of the contrapositive rather than by contradiction, so that my proof is more portable, even if the result I need isn't.