AW: [Metamath] Uncomfortable with definitions as axioms ... help?

2023-07-11 Thread Discher, Samiro
"The problem is an alias rule can still fail if the syntax of the definition doesn't meet certain criteria. [...]" Maybe I should've been clearer about the syntax definition. In my theory, one can skip a lot of parentheses since I considered left first bracketing, which I explained prior to

Re: [Metamath] Uncomfortable with definitions as axioms ... help?

2023-07-11 Thread Mario Carneiro
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 4:35 AM Marshall Stoner wrote: > I trust that intuitively that these definitions are valid. The problem is > an alias rule can still fail if the syntax of the definition doesn't meet > certain criteria. If the parenthesis surrounding ↔ were missing in the > definition

Re: [Metamath] Uncomfortable with definitions as axioms ... help?

2023-07-11 Thread Marshall Stoner
I trust that intuitively that these definitions are valid. The problem is an alias rule can still fail if the syntax of the definition doesn't meet certain criteria. If the parenthesis surrounding ↔ were missing in the definition of the biconditional, for instance. If I could understand how

[Metamath] Re: How do you quickly jump to the markup definitions in set.mm?

2023-07-11 Thread Marshall Stoner
Nevermind. I split the file into parts and found it easier that way. On Monday, July 10, 2023 at 1:50:44 AM UTC-4 Marshall Stoner wrote: > I just downloaded the metamath.exe program. It seems like this should be > super obvious, but I just can't figure it out. The help documentation only >