公理 — Axiom

論理

Every system of thought begins with what cannot be proven — only accepted. The axiom is the seed from which all reasoning grows, irreducible and self-evident.

∀x (P(x) → Q(x))

前提 — Premise

From accepted truths, we derive new certainties

The premise is the bridge between the given and the sought. Each statement follows necessarily from what came before — no leaps, no intuitions unexamined, only the patient unfolding of consequence.

In the architecture of reason, every floor rests upon the one below. Remove a single support and the structure reveals its dependency — not as weakness, but as honesty.

P → Q, P ⊢ Q

導出 — Derivation

The chain of reasoning extends link by link

Derivation is the heartbeat of logic — the mechanical process by which truth propagates through a system. Each step is small, almost trivial in isolation, yet their accumulation builds cathedrals of certainty from grains of obvious fact.

Watch the wisteria cascade: each blossom hangs from the one above, a visual chain of modus ponens applications descending toward their inevitable conclusion.

((P → Q) ∧ (Q → R)) → (P → R)

結論 — Conclusion

Q.E.D.

What was to be demonstrated has been demonstrated. The proof is complete — not because we chose to stop, but because the argument arrived at its natural terminus. The conclusion was always there, waiting in the premises like a sculpture waiting in marble.

The nandina bears its fruit: small, precise, inevitable. Each berry a theorem proven, each branch a path of valid inference that led us here.

∴ Q.E.D. — quod erat demonstrandum