▲ | tiniestcabbage 4 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Not who you were replying to, but yes, it's a special case. For anything not having to do with a formal math-like proof, you want "has proven" instead of "has proved." It's super weird. We only have a few of these in English, where one of the tenses of the verb changes depending on the subject matter, but they do exist. The only other one I can think of off the top of my head is hang: past and participle "hanged"/"have hanged" (to execute or be executed via hanging from the neck) versus "hung"/"have hung" (any other meaning). Hope that helps! Edit: fixed my example to better match the original text. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | pxeger1 4 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This doesn't match my experience, and no dictionary I've checked says the past participle depends on the context; only that "proven" and "proved" can both be used (in any context). See e.g. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proven#Verb I'm not a mathematician though, so maybe this is a genuine semantic convention that neither I nor my dictionary are aware of. Maybe it's just that some mathematical style guides say to prefer "proved", for consistency, not that it really depends on the context? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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