De Morgan laws
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- formulation by De Morgan
- In Augustus De Morgan
…logic include the formulation of De Morgan’s laws and work leading to the development of the theory of relations and the rise of modern symbolic, or mathematical, logic.
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- In Augustus De Morgan
- valid formulas of PC
- In formal logic: Validity in PC
…… nor …,” the first De Morgan law can be read as “both p and q if and only if neither not-p nor not-q”; thus it expresses the principle that two propositions are jointly true if and only if neither of them is false. Whenever, as is the case in…
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- In formal logic: Validity in PC
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- foundations of mathematics
- In foundations of mathematics: Nonconstructive arguments
…proved with the help of De Morgan’s laws, named after the English mathematician and logician Augustus De Morgan (1806–71). It asserts the equivalence of ∃yϕ(y) with ¬∀y¬ϕ(y), using classical logic, but there is no way one can construct such an x, for example, when ϕ(x) asserts the existence of a…
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- In foundations of mathematics: Nonconstructive arguments
- probability theory
- In probability theory: Measure theory
…complements of those sets (DeMorgan’s law), it follows from (ii) and (iii) that, if A1, A2,… ∊ M, then A1 ∩ A2 ∩ ⋯ ∊ M.
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- In probability theory: Measure theory