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[Pierre Courtieu <pierre.courtieu AT gmail.com>]

I realize that my first answer to Gert Smolka was not cced to this
list and that it makes my other messages difficult to understand.
I copy it here and ask again: Has anyone ever used successfully
"induction X" where X is something else than a variable?

Best regards,
Pierre

> Indeed, functional induction is similar to induction (it *is* a call
> to induction actually): it mostly works on variables. We could modify
> functional induction (and induction actually) to always do a
> "remember" when applied to non variable terms. I wonder if this would
> break some strange usage of induction.
>
> Has anyone ever used successfully "induction X" where X is something
> else than a variable?
> Best regards,
> Pierre