>Perhaps I ought to reword this entry by saying something like "a small >minority of mathematicians reject proof by contradiction". Would that >be better?
No. I absolutely disagree with having such claim in the enciclopaedia.
There are mathematicians who make wrong or obscure claims; that should not be a good reason to mention those claims to mislead the reader.
This makes me think of the whole theory of evolution debate. Claims such as "many scientists say that the theory of evolution is all wrong", only contribute to the general confusion.
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