Abstract
A reusable Isabelle/HOL framework showing that labelled natural deduction can be treated as a conservative refinement of ordinary natural deduction, with generic structural metatheory and several concrete label interpretations.
We define ordinary intuitionistic propositional natural deduction and a parametric labelled refinement. We prove erasure soundness, namely that labelled derivations become ordinary derivations after erasing labels, and a controlled lifting theorem, namely that ordinary derivations admit some labelling.
We instantiate the framework with unit labels, recovering ordinary natural deduction as a special case via conservativity; provenance labels, giving a sound over-approximation of assumption dependencies; and a small possible-world modal example, including a derivation of the modal K axiom.
Standard structural metatheory, including weakening, exchange, substitution, and cut admissibility, is proved for both the ordinary and labelled systems. The modal fragment is presented as an example instantiation, not as a full labelled modal proof theory.
The development is fully constructive, contains no unfinished proof commands or oracle invocations, and is intended as a foundation that other entries can cite.
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Codex with gpt 5.5 on xhigh reasoning was used to help with proof engineering
Topics
Session Gabbay_Labelled_Natural_Deduction
- Labelled_Formulas
- Natural_Deduction
- Labelled_Natural_Deduction
- Erasure
- Label_Algebra
- Lifting
- Unit_Labels
- Provenance_Labels
- Modal_Labels_Example
- Modal_K_Schema
- Examples