[Agda] conjectures in agda

Martin Escardo m.escardo at cs.bham.ac.uk
Thu Jan 7 10:08:42 CET 2010


Andrés Sicard-Ramírez wrote:
> Maybe I am missing something about your approach, but why not define 
> conjecture by
> 
> postulate
>    conjecture : {A : Set} → A

I was trained in such a way that I know how to prove everything from 
absurdity only, and absurdity is the only thing I dare to postulate. For 
the more daring of you, I recommend Andrés' solution. :-)

Martin


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