Stream: Beginner Questions

Topic: Why natural deduction?


view this post on Zulip waynee95 (May 02 2022 at 17:13):

Why does Isabelle (and most other proof assistants) use natural deduction as opposed to sequent calculus?

I don't remember which paper exactly but in one paper by (I think) Lawrence Paulson he said something along those lines of "Isabelle originally used sequent calculus but I switched to natural deduction because deriving rules is easier".


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