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Lean has a small “kernel” that has been independently checked multiple times, and the rest of Lean depends on the kernel. A soundness bug is still possible, but pretty unlikely at this point.

https://lean-lang.org/lean4/doc/faq.html



Soundness of Lean requires more than correctness of the kernel - it requires that the theory be sound. That, frankly, is a matter of mathematics folklore. "It is known" that the combination of rules Lean uses is sound... unless it isn't.


That would be a bug in math itself, rather than a bug in Lean. It's possible, of course, but even less likely.




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