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What's the expression of "necessarily satisfied" in mathmatics?

English Language & Usage Asked on January 1, 2021

I want to say:

Consider a>b, if b>c, then a>c is necessarily satisfied.

Will it be better by using “must”

Consider a>b, if b>c, then a>c must be satisfied.

or with nothing

Consider a>b, if b>c, then a>c is satisfied.

Thank you very much!

More clearly, I want to use “satisfied” because a>c is a constraint where “a” is a variable while “b” and “c” are constants. I want to express that since “a>b”, if “b>c”, then constraint “a>c” should not be considered. So how should I express this? Thnaks for your suggestion.

One Answer

The use of satisfied in this context is confusing.

The entire sequence being referenced is called a proof. The final statement in a proof is called a theorem:

[Merriam-Webster]
1 : a formula, proposition, or statement in mathematics or logic deduced or to be deduced from other formulas or propositions

From Wikipedia (additional emphasis mine):

In logic and mathematics, a formal proof or derivation is a finite sequence of sentences (called well-formed formulas in the case of a formal language), each of which is an axiom, an assumption, or follows from the preceding sentences in the sequence by a rule of inference. It differs from a natural language argument in that it is rigorous, unambiguous and mechanically checkable …

The theorem is a syntactic consequence of all the well-formed formulas preceding it in the proof.

If anything is being satisfied in the proof, it's the set of axioms that precedes the theorem.


However, you can say that the theorem is a necessary conclusion or a necessary consequence (of the set of axioms):

[Merriam-Webster]

conclusion
1 a : a reasoned judgment : INFERENCE
       // The obvious conclusion is that she was negligent.
1 b : the necessary consequence of two or more propositions taken as premises
especially : the inferred proposition of a syllogism

consequence
1 : a conclusion derived through logic : INFERENCE
    //… we can deduce … many consequences each of which can be tested by experiment.
— James Bryant Conant

Answered by Jason Bassford on January 1, 2021

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