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1. Put the argument in the following passage in its proper premise-conclusion format. Then, identify the factual claim and the inferential claim. (From Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings, 2nd Edition) "In many respects [intuitionistic mathematics] deviates from classical mathematics. In the first place, because classical mathematics uses logic to generate theorems, believes in the existence of unknown truths, and in particular applies the principle of the excluded third expressing that every mathematical assertion (i.e. every assignment of a mathematical property to a mathematical entity) either is a truth or cannot be a truth. In the second place because classical mathematics confines itself to predeterminate infinite sequences for which from the beginning the nth element is fixed for each n. Owing to this confinement classical mathematics, to define real numbers, has only predeterminate convergent infinite sequences of rational numbers at its disposal. Out of real numbers defined in this way, only subspecies of 'ever unfinished denumerable' species of real numbers can be composed by means of introspective construction. Such ever unfinished denumerable species all being of measure zero, classical mathematics, to create the continuum out of points, needs some logical process starting from one or more axioms. Consequently, we may say that classical analysis, however appropriate it be for technique and science, has less mathematical truth than intuitionistic analysis performing the said composition of the continuum by considering the species of freely proceeding convergent infinite sequences of rational numbers, without having recourse to language or logic."