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<H2>What is the Semantics for Classical Logic?</H2>
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In the intuitionistic case, the answer to this question is well-understood -
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essentially a semantics is given to all proofs in normal form and all other
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proofs inherit this semantics from the normal forms they reduce to. This 
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(1) reductions preserving the semantics of a proof. 
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It is widely known that this assumption causes any reasonable semantics 
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for classical logic to collaps. In the literature Lafont's example is
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often cited for this observation.<p>  
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