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Whither "intuitionistic"?



The formulation of the intuitionistic sequent calculus is due to Gentzen
but is it also Gentzen who was responsible for coining the term
'intuitionistic'?

What was the motivation for the choice of term? --- that intuitionistic
sequents are more "intuitive" than classical ones?  To my mind, it is the
other way around...  Was there some other precedent that motivated the
adoption of "intuitionistic"?

--FC