HOL Light

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HOL Light is a member of the HOL theorem prover family. Like the other members, it is a proof assistant for classical higher order logic. Compared with other HOL systems, HOL Light is intended to have relatively simple foundations. HOL Light is authored and maintained by the mathematician and computer scientist John Harrison. HOL Light is released under the simplified BSD license.[1]

Logical foundations[edit]

HOL Light is based on a formulation of type theory with equality as the only primitive notion. The primitive rules of inference are the following:

REFL reflexivity of equality
TRANS transitivity of equality
MK_COMB congruence of equality
ABS abstraction of equality ( must not be free in )
BETA connection of abstraction and function application
ASSUME assuming , prove
EQ_MP relation of equality and deduction
DEDUCT_ANTISYM_RULE deduce equality from 2-way deducibility
INST instantiate variables in assumptions and conclusion of theorem
INST_TYPE instantiate type variables in assumptions and conclusion of theorem

This formulation of type theory is very close to the one described in section II.2 of Lambek & Scott (1986).

References[edit]

  • Lambek, J; Scott, P. J. (1986), Introduction to Higher Order Categorical logic, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521356534

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