Proving, Refuting, Improving—Looking for a Theorem
Abstract: Exploring the proofs and refutations of an abstract statement, conjecture with the aim to give a formal syntactic treatment of its proving–refuting process, we introduce the notion of extrapolation of a possibly unprovable statement having the form if A, then B, and propose a procedure that should result in the new statement if A 0 , then B 0 , which is similar to the starting one, but provable. We think that this procedure, based on the extrapolation method, can be considered a basic methodological tool applicable to prove–refute–improve any conjecture. This new notion, extrapolation, presents a dual counterpart of the well-known interpolation introduced in traditional logic sixty-five years ago
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2022
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Keywords: extrapolation; interpolation; proving; refuting; improving