I forgot to say that the theorem is 'excluded_middle_thm' and its proof is
in file 'src/boolclass.ml'.

Mark.

on 18/5/15 5:17 PM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Robert,
>
> If you're interested in the proof itself, rather than how in how the HOL
> Light one works, then there's also a proof in HOL Zero which could help.
> This follows the same idea but is a "forwards proof" in terms of basic
> inference rule steps rather than tactics, but might (or might not..) be
more
> understandable.  Download the HOL Zero source distribution from:
> http://www.proof-technologies.com/holzero/
>
> Best,
> Mark.
>
> on 15/5/15 11:22 PM, Robert White <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear Sir/Madam,
>>
>> I wonder if you could explain a bit of the last step of the proof of law
> of
>> excluded middle (in the file class.ml). I am not sure how the rewriting
>> magically converted
>>
>> 0 [`F <=> (@x. (x <=> F) \/ t)`]
>> 1 [`T <=> (@x. (x <=> T) \/ t)`]
>> 2 [`t`]
>>
>> `~((@x. (x <=> T) \/ t) <=> (@x. (x <=> F) \/ t)) ==> (@x. (x <=> F) \/
> t)`
>>
>> to `t \/ ~t`
>>
>> The proof is as follows:
>>
>> let EXCLUDED_MIDDLE = prove
>> (`!t. t \/ ~t`,
>> GEN_TAC THEN SUBGOAL_THEN
>> `(((@x. (x <=> F) \/ t) <=> F) \/ t) /\ (((@x. (x <=> T) \/ t) <=> T) \/
>> t)`
>> MP_TAC THENL
>> [CONJ_TAC THEN CONV_TAC SELECT_CONV THENL
>> [EXISTS_TAC `F`; EXISTS_TAC `T`] THEN
>> DISJ1_TAC THEN REFL_TAC;
>> DISCH_THEN(STRIP_ASSUME_TAC o GSYM) THEN
>> TRY(DISJ1_TAC THEN FIRST_ASSUM ACCEPT_TAC) THEN
>> DISJ2_TAC THEN DISCH_TAC THEN MP_TAC(ITAUT `~(T <=> F)`) THEN
>> PURE_ONCE_ASM_REWRITE_TAC[] THEN
>> *    ASM_REWRITE_TAC[ITAUT `p \/ T <=> T`]]);;*
>>
>> PS: Is there a way I can print out how it is done step by step form OCaml
>> Toplevel?
>>
>> Thanks very much!
>> --
>>
>> Regards,
>> Robert
>>
>>
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