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Using the law of the excluded middle is definitely a shortcut in such proofs, but there is no proof I'm aware of that shows no comparable constructive proof is
by naasking 2y ago
Using the law of the excluded middle is definitely a shortcut in such proofs, but there is no proof I'm aware of that shows no comparable constructive proof is possible. We reason with non-computable objects all of the time, such constructions are simply never fully materialized, and the need to materialize them are typically eliminated in later stages to prove concrete results. It's a good example but I don't think it's sufficient to exclude math from computer science.