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  • Alfred North Whitehead
    formal logic
    / Natural deduction method in PC

    …is said to be a discharged hypothesis. In this way a wff may be reached that depends on no hypotheses at all. Such a wff is a theorem of logic. It can be shown that those theorems derivable by the rules stated above—together with the definition of α ≔ β…

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    …is said to be a discharged hypothesis. In this way a wff may be reached that depends on no hypotheses at all. Such a wff is a theorem of logic. It can be shown that those theorems derivable by the rules stated above—together with the definition of α ≔ β…

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