[Hol-info] The two characteristics of an antinomy: self-reference and negation

2018-06-06 Thread Ken Kubota
Dear Members of the Research Community, A frequent and ongoing impediment in mathematical research is an only partial understanding of the nature of antinomies, in which _self-reference_ is (correctly) identified as a characteristic of the antinomy, but in which it is also omitted that - as is

Re: [Hol-info] big records

2018-06-06 Thread Michael.Norrish
If you understand what the package is doing (and I admit that this is not easy), then the behaviour of the simplifier on big records is in turn fairly understandable. The advantage of the package is not suffering a quadratic blow-up in elapsed time and theorem sizes (in turn leading to quadrati

[Hol-info] big records

2018-06-06 Thread Ramana Kumar
Dear HOL users, Does anyone know how to use the big record package? I always find I want to turn it off (by increasing the big record size to above the max number of fields in my types) because many things don't work on big records (in particular the simplifier and EVAL) whereas they do work on "s