List of laws in logic

  • the law of identity (ID)

    • everything is (identical to itself)

    • B.Russell in PM, 1912: "Whatever is, is."

    • every proposition implies itself, p -> p

    • ID

    • axiom of classical logic

    • axiom of intuitionistic logic

  • the law of non-contradiction (NC)

    • no proposition is both true and false, ¬(p ∧ ¬p)

    • contradictory statements cannot both at the same time be true

    • no thing having some quality has the negative of that quality

    • NC

    • axiom of classical logic

    • axiom of intuitionistic logic

  • the law of excluded middle (EM)

    • every proposition is either true or false, p ∨ ¬p

    • a thing either has some quality or has the negative of that quality

    • EM

    • axiom of classical logic

    • not an axiom of intuitionistic logic (also double negation elimination)

  • Principle of Explosion ECQ

    Because the principle has been falsely attributed to philosopher John Duns Scotus (1265-1308), the principle is sometimes known as pseudo Scotus (PSP).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_logic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hilbert_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-order_logic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propositional_calculus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_inference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_proof https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frege's_theorem

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