| Subject: | A question of logical terminology |
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| Date: | 31 Dec 2006 09:27:01 -0800 |
| Newsgroups: | sci.math, sci.logic |
Suppose P is a proof of the proposition q. Is there a standard name for q as a function of P? For example, in the special case that the proof P consists of p, p->q, and an application of modus ponens to derive q, then q is called the 'consequent'. Is there a standard word for the thing that a more general proof proves? (I'm just trying to give a function in a computer program a sensible name. Things like 'target', 'result, 'goal' or 'end' just don't seem descriptive enough to me...) |
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