import NNG.Metadata import NNG.MyNat.Addition Game "NNG" World "Proposition" Level 1 Title "the `exact` tactic" open MyNat Introduction " A Proposition is a true/false statement, like `2 + 2 = 4` or `2 + 2 = 5`. Just like we can have concrete sets in Lean like `ℕ`, and abstract sets called things like `X`, we can also have concrete propositions like `2 + 2 = 5` and abstract propositions called things like `P`. Mathematicians are very good at conflating a theorem with its proof. They might say \"now use theorem 12 and we're done\". What they really mean is \"now use the proof of theorem 12...\" (i.e. the fact that we proved it already). Particularly problematic is the fact that mathematicians use the word Proposition to mean \"a relatively straightforward statement which is true\" and computer scientists use it to mean \"a statement of arbitrary complexity, which might be true or false\". Computer scientists are far more careful about distinguishing between a proposition and a proof. For example: `x + 0 = x` is a proposition, and `add_zero x` is its proof. The convention we'll use is capital letters for propositions and small letters for proofs. " Statement "If $P$ is true, and $P\\implies Q$ is also true, then $Q$ is true." (P Q : Prop) (p : P) (h : P → Q) : Q := by Hint " Here `P` is the true/false statement (the statement of proposition), and `p` is its proof. It's like `P` being the set and `p` being the element. In fact computer scientists sometimes think about the following analogy: propositions are like sets, and their proofs are like their elements. ## What's going on in this world? We're going to learn about manipulating propositions and proofs. Fortunately, we don't need to learn a bunch of new tactics -- the ones we just learnt (`exact`, `intro`, `have`, `apply`) will be perfect. The levels in proposition world are \"back to normal\", we're proving theorems, not constructing elements of sets. Or are we? If you delete the sorry below then your local context will look like this: In this situation, we have true/false statements $P$ and $Q$, a proof $p$ of $P$, and $h$ is the hypothesis that $P\\implies Q$. Our goal is to construct a proof of $Q$. It's clear what to do *mathematically* to solve this goal, $P$ is true and $P$ implies $Q$ so $Q$ is true. But how to do it in Lean? Adopting a point of view wholly unfamiliar to many mathematicians, Lean interprets the hypothesis $h$ as a function from proofs of $P$ to proofs of $Q$, so the rather surprising approach `exact h p` works to close the goal. Note that `exact h P` (with a capital P) won't work; this is a common error I see from beginners. \"We're trying to solve `P` so it's exactly `P`\". The goal states the *theorem*, your job is to construct the *proof*. $P$ is not a proof of $P$, it's $p$ that is a proof of $P$. In Lean, Propositions, like sets, are types, and proofs, like elements of sets, are terms. " exact h p Conclusion " "