Re: [Hol-info] Learning HOL Light

2014-03-19 Thread Bill Richter
2. The argument formerly used a direct port of the original Diaconescu proof as presented in Beeson's "Foundations of Constructive Mathematics". But in July 2009 I changed it to a somewhat optimized variant shown to me by Mark Adams. This is noted in the CHANGES fil

Re: [Hol-info] Learning HOL Light

2014-03-19 Thread Bill Richter
Thanks, John and Rob! The main problem I'm having is actually embarrassingly simple: I don't understand the typed Lambda Calculus angle in Church's work or HOL. Now I definitely see the point of having functions as well as sets, and that means that the HOL type theory (sets are either types or