-- Copyright (c) 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. -- Released under Apache 2.0 license as described in the file LICENSE. -- Author: Leonardo de Moura -- logic.axioms.prop_decidable -- =========================== import logic.axioms.classical logic.axioms.hilbert logic.classes.decidable open decidable inhabited nonempty -- Excluded middle + Hilbert implies every proposition is decidable -- First, we show that (decidable a) is inhabited for any 'a' using the excluded middle theorem decidable_inhabited [instance] (a : Prop) : inhabited (decidable a) := nonempty_imp_inhabited (or.elim (em a) (assume Ha, nonempty.intro (inl Ha)) (assume Hna, nonempty.intro (inr Hna))) -- Note that decidable_inhabited is marked as an instance, and it is silently used -- for synthesizing the implicit argument in the following 'epsilon' theorem prop_decidable [instance] (a : Prop) : decidable a := epsilon (λd, true)