--- a/ProgTutorial/Package/Ind_Intro.thy Sun Apr 26 23:45:22 2009 +0200
+++ b/ProgTutorial/Package/Ind_Intro.thy Wed Apr 29 00:36:14 2009 +0200
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@
\medskip
HOL is based on just a few primitive constants, like equality and
implication, whose properties are described by axioms. All other concepts,
- such as inductive predicates, datatypes or recursive functions, have to be defined
- in terms of those constants, and the desired properties, for example
- induction theorems or recursion equations, have to be derived from the definitions
+ such as inductive predicates, datatypes or recursive functions, are defined
+ in terms of those primitives, and the desired properties, for example
+ induction theorems or recursion equations, are derived from the definitions
by a formal proof. Since it would be very tedious for a user to define
complex inductive predicates or datatypes ``by hand'' just using the
primitive operators of higher order logic, \emph{definitional packages} have
- been implemented automating such work. Thanks to those packages, the user
+ been implemented to automate such work. Thanks to those packages, the user
can give a high-level specification, for example a list of introduction
rules or constructors, and the package then does all the low-level
definitions and proofs behind the scenes. In this chapter we explain how
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@
As the running example we have chosen a rather simple package for defining
inductive predicates. To keep things really simple, we will not use the
general Knaster-Tarski fixpoint theorem on complete lattices, which forms
- the basis of Isabelle's standard inductive definition package. Instead, we
+ the basis of Isabelle/HOL's standard inductive definition package. Instead, we
will describe a simpler \emph{impredicative} (i.e.\ involving quantification on
predicate variables) encoding of inductive predicates. Due to its
simplicity, this package will necessarily have a reduced functionality. It
- does neither support introduction rules involving arbitrary monotone
+ does neither support introduction rules involving arbitrary monotonic
operators, nor does it prove case analysis rules (also called inversion rules).
Moreover, it only proves a weaker form of the induction principle for inductive
predicates.