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Intuitive acceptance of proof by contradiction

Samuele Antonini

2019 · DOI: 10.1007/s11858-019-01066-4
Zdm · 15 Citations

TLDR

In this paper, it is observed that students produce argumentation by starting with the assumption that the claim is false (indirect argumentation), and that they seem to accept this as more evident than the proofs by contradiction.