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Single Idea 13685

[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / H. Proof Systems / 4. Natural Deduction ]

Full Idea

The method of natural deduction is popular in introductory textbooks since it allows reasoning with assumptions.

Gist of Idea

Natural deduction helpfully allows reasoning with assumptions

Source

Theodore Sider (Logic for Philosophy [2010], 2.5)

Book Ref

Sider,Theodore: 'Logic for Philosophy' [OUP 2010], p.37

A Reaction

Reasoning with assumptions is generally easier, rather than being narrowly confined to a few tricky axioms, You gradually show that an inference holds whatever the assumption was, and so end up with the same result.

The 14 ideas with the same theme [proofs built from introduction and elimination rules]:

13832 Natural deduction shows the heart of reasoning (and sequent calculus is just a tool) [Gentzen, by Hacking]
13753 Natural deduction takes proof from assumptions (with its rules) as basic, and axioms play no part [Bostock]
13755 Excluded middle is an introduction rule for negation, and ex falso quodlibet will eliminate it [Bostock]
13754 Natural deduction rules for → are the Deduction Theorem (→I) and Modus Ponens (→E) [Bostock]
13758 In natural deduction we work from the premisses and the conclusion, hoping to meet in the middle [Bostock]
18120 The Deduction Theorem is what licenses a system of natural deduction [Bostock]
13823 In natural deduction, inferences are atomic steps involving just one logical constant [Prawitz]
10602 A 'natural deduction system' has no axioms but many rules [Smith,P]
21612 Or-elimination is 'Argument by Cases'; it shows how to derive C from 'A or B' [Williamson]
13685 Natural deduction helpfully allows reasoning with assumptions [Sider]
19298 Unlike axiom proofs, natural deduction proofs needn't focus on logical truths and theorems [Hale]
18783 Many-valued logics lack a natural deduction system [Mares]
15001 'Tonk' is supposed to follow the elimination and introduction rules, but it can't be so interpreted [Sider]
18800 Introduction rules give deduction conditions, and Elimination says what can be deduced [Rumfitt]