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Alternatives to the law of the excluded middle

Your question sounds like you’re thinking mainly about plain propositional logic, and for that, Emil Jeřábek’s excellent answer shows why the answer is “no”. But to supplement it a little, in case yo …
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Modal collapse upon addition of the law of the excluded middle to an Intuitionistic modal logic

Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen’s answer gives a good concise symbolic proof; but it seems also worth giving the argument in prose as well, to explain the idea more readably. I will write “$\bigcirc$” as “usually …
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Why are W-types called "W"?

You write: Probably "W" means either "wellordered" or "wellfounded". […] But these are notions associated to order theory, whereas W-types don't directly have to do with order relations (if at all). …
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