Timeline for Can it be an application of a theorem if I only use it to generalize?
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| Jul 17, 2020 at 23:08 | vote | accept | fisura filozofica | ||
| Jul 17, 2020 at 22:55 | comment | added | David White | If you use the theorem in the proof, I think you can call it an "application." I have done this in a lot of my papers (which are all on arxiv). One of my co-authors prefers the word "example," reserving "application" for when it's a big deal. But my other 7 co-authors seem fine with "application" even for small results. | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 22:07 | comment | added | LSpice | @fisurafilozofica, rather than clarifying vagueness with further vagueness, why not just put your paper on the arXiv if it isn't already and point us to it? | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 20:07 | comment | added | fisura filozofica | The results are not proven using a generalized form of Theorem B. I use Theorem B to get to them by generalizing some smaller results. But the parts where I use Theorem B don't constitute very much of the proof. So I don't know if I could really call this results an aplication of the theorem, if I only use it just at the end of the proofs. | |
| S Jul 17, 2020 at 19:26 | history | answered | David White | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
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