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Weakening Lemmas

  Weakening lemmas should have form

where , and is some weaker relation than .

Lemmas in the library must be named opid-of- _weakening_ index,  where the _ index is optional, and is only needed to distinguish lemmas if there is more than one for a given .

Currently weakening lemmas are required for all reflexive relations with being equality. They extend the usefulness of the transitivity and functionality lemmas.



Karla Consroe
Wed Oct 23 13:48:45 EDT 1996