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Comment by Jaxan

12 hours ago

You don’t assume the assertions, the verification shows they always hold!

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kragen  2 hours ago

You assume the premises. The verification shows that the conclusions hold (assuming the premises do). Both premises and conclusions are, in some sense, "assertions", though not the C assert sense.

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