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François G. Dorais
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Timothy Chow gave a fine answer in the context of classical mathematics. Here are some further sources for you to ponder. These not only work without choice, but also without excluded middle:

The moral of the story is that the folk tales that mathematicians tell about how choice-free mathematics is completely different, or even impoverished beyond recognition, are just folk tales. Of course, one has to be a bit more careful, but that is always the case when we generalize, as new phenomena arise.

Andrej Bauer
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