Semiotic Relations and Proof Methods: A Cross-Genre Study of Argument Structure with Large Language Models

When a direct proof of a statement $S$ seems hard or even impossible to obtain, there may exist another statement (or set of statements) $S^{*}$, somehow related to $S$, on the basis of which $S$ can be proved. In order to investigate what options can be used to move from $S$ to $S^{*}$, four kinds