XPost: comp.theory, sci.math   
   From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk   
      
   On 04/01/2026 03:07, Richard Damon wrote:   
   > On 1/3/26 9:49 PM, olcott wrote:   
      
   >> So you have no idea how true statements are derived   
   >> from other true statements ?   
   >>   
   >> https://iep.utm.edu/val-snd/   
   >>   
   >   
   > Right, but the chain can be infinite, and thus not a proof.   
      
   It must have both a start and an end to be a derivation. I'm curious to   
   know how you came to think a derivation refers to a class of things that   
   includes a variety that one would say was an infinite chain.   
      
      
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