How statement and proof provenance work
The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.
- Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
- AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
- AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.
These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.
Deduction theorem for sentence assumptions
Statement
In ZF, for a sentence theory , a sentence and any formula ,
The forward transformation also works for an open discharged assumption provided every variable generalized or existentially eliminated in the given derivation is absent from ; the other assumptions remain sentences.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A derivation with final line , and the displayed sentence or variable restrictions on .
Derivations have finite length; weakening and composition of proofs preserve derivability. (Finite support, weakening, and composition of derivations)
Boolean implication, identity and composition rules are derivable in the fixed calculus. (Derived propositional, quantifier and equality rules)
The three inference rules and restricted universal-distribution axiom are fixed by Formal proofs from sentence theories.
Proof
For each old line we construct a proof from of , by induction along the finite list. If , use identity. If is an axiom or belongs to , retain its one-line proof and apply the tautology by MP. These include every possible first line.
If comes by MP from and , the already transformed premises and the tautology give the new line by two MP applications.
If comes by generalization, generalize the transformed to , then use distribution to obtain . Its restriction holds because is not free in .
If comes from , the transformed premise is . Boolean commutation gives . Eliminate to get , since is free in neither nor . Commute back to .
The three rule cases exhaust the list. Concatenating each finite derived block gives a finite proof of from . For a sentence both variable restrictions hold automatically. Conversely, weaken a proof of to , append its assumption and apply MP to obtain .
Depends on
Used by
Dependency tree · two levels
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Sources
- Moschovakis, Theorem 1H.8 p37 (proof assigned as exercise); complete local three-rule induction. (standard reference, not scraped)