Absorption / modus tollens / modus ponendo tollens
Negation introduction
Rules of replacement
Associativity
Commutativity
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Double negation
De Morgan's laws
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Material implication
Exportation
Tautology
Predicate logic
Rules of inference
Universal generalization / instantiation
Existential generalization / instantiation
In predicate logic, existential generalization[1][2] (also known as existential introduction, ∃I) is a valid rule of inference that allows one to move from a specific statement, or one instance, to a quantified generalized statement, or existential proposition. In first-order logic, it is often used as a rule for the existential quantifier () in formal proofs.
Example: "Rover loves to wag his tail. Therefore, something loves to wag its tail."
Example: "Alice made herself a cup of tea. Therefore, Alice made someone a cup of tea."
Example: "Alice made herself a cup of tea. Therefore, someone made someone a cup of tea."
In the Fitch-style calculus:
where is obtained from by replacing all its free occurrences of (or some of them) by .[3]
^Copi, Irving M.; Cohen, Carl (2005). Introduction to Logic. Prentice Hall.
^Hurley, Patrick (1991). A Concise Introduction to Logic 4th edition. Wadsworth Publishing. ISBN 9780534145156.
^pg. 347. Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy, Language proof and logic Second Ed., CSLI Publications, 2008.
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