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Noun:

  • logic a syntactically correct expression that is deducible from the given axioms of a deductive system
  • mathematics A mathematical statement of some importance that has been proven to be true. Minor theorems are often called ''propositions''. Theorems which are not very interesting in themselves but are an essential part of a bigger theorem's proof are called ''lemmas''
  • colloquially|incorrectly A Fermat's Last Theorem (as which it was known long before it was proved in the 1990s.)

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