/- Copyright (c) 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Released under Apache 2.0 license as described in the file LICENSE. Author: Leonardo de Moura Excluded middle + Hilbert implies every proposition is decidable. -/ import logic.axioms.prop_complete logic.axioms.hilbert data.sum open decidable inhabited nonempty sum theorem decidable_inhabited [instance] [priority 0] (a : Prop) : inhabited (decidable a) := inhabited_of_nonempty (or.elim (em a) (assume Ha, nonempty.intro (inl Ha)) (assume Hna, nonempty.intro (inr Hna))) theorem prop_decidable [instance] [priority 0] (a : Prop) : decidable a := arbitrary (decidable a) theorem type_decidable (A : Type) : A + (A → false) := match prop_decidable (nonempty A) with | inl Hp := sum.inl (inhabited.value (inhabited_of_nonempty Hp)) | inr Hn := sum.inr (λ a, absurd (nonempty.intro a) Hn) end