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Its not only not constructive to the discussion, even in practice its not constructive.

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Quick take

Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.

adjective

Serving a useful purpose.

adjective

Relating to or causing construction.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for constructive.

Example sentences

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Its not only not constructive to the discussion, even in practice its not constructive.

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When the parent commenter says the reals in constructive mathematics are uncountable, he means that inside of a constructive system one can prove the statement There does not exist a bijection between the natural numbers and the real numbers.

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Yes, Cantor's diagonal argument can still be used to show the uncountability of real numbers in a constructive setting.

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You need to be very, very careful when talking about the size of the constructive reals.

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There is no construction - in the sense of constructive mathematics - that can achieve what is described at this point.

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Comments like that nauseating naiveté masquerading as enlightenment, not constructive solutions to police shootings.

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If you think Soylent lacks something to be a total food replacement, or have any constructive criticism - please share it with us.

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If you are working within constructive mathematics, if you describe the real numbers as setoids of Cauchy sequences with Cauchy-equivalence as the equivalence relation, then there are uncountably many real numbers.

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So, it depends on what you start your constructive world with.

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There's something about the HN users that makes them enjoy taking a shit on other people's work without including positive or at least constructive feedback.

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> In employment law, constructive dismissal, also called constructive discharge or constructive termination, occurs when an employee resigns as a result of the employer creating a hostile work environment.

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You are free to interpret constructive logic in various ways.

Quote examples

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Essentially, constructive mathematics is mathematics done without the law of excluded middle ("for all propositions P, either P or not P").

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By way of providing some hopefully constructive feedback, the language seems a bit excessively informal: "Safe Rust is For Reals Totally Safe.

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I understand under "constructive reals" the computable reals, and there are only countably many of them.

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I would take a look at Andrej Bauer's excellent talk "Stages of Accepting Constructive Mathematics"[0].

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use constructive in a sentence?

Its not only not constructive to the discussion, even in practice its not constructive.

What does constructive mean?

Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.

What part of speech is constructive?

constructive is commonly used as adjective.