On 11/08/2012, at 17:05, Bill Richter <[email protected]> wrote:

> My main problem is that I don't understand HOL, so I don't know what theorems 
> HOL Light is proving for me.   The HOL4 Logic manual looks like a very 
> respectable CS document, but I haven't been able to read it yet, and it's not 
> a HOL Light document.   

HOL Light and HOL4 implement the same logic by design.  For this reason, the 
Logic Manual is the best reference describing the HOL Light logic's semantics. 

> With my Tarski code, I would be happy to say (though I don't quite understand 
> it) that HOL Light was verifying my FOL proofs using Tarski's geometry 
> axioms.  But there's real  HOL in my Hilbert code funneled through sets.ml.  
> Of course I know what results I meant to prove, and my results use sets as 
> mathematicians customarily use sets.  I figure that's the result that HOL 
> Light proved for me, but I'm missing the translation.  

Sets in HOL Light and HOL4 are predicates over their respective types.  Types 
correspond to non-empty sets (as already discussed).  So, because any predicate 
bounded above corresponds to a ZFC set, the sets in HOL do also correspond to 
ZFC sets.

Michael
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