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Negation introduction

Negation introduction is a rule of inference, or transformation rule, in the field of propositional calculus. Negation introduction is a rule of inference, or transformation rule, in the field of propositional calculus. Negation introduction states that if a given antecedent implies both the consequent and its complement, then the antecedent is a contradiction. This can be written as: ( P → Q ) ∧ ( P → ¬ Q ) ↔ ¬ P {displaystyle (P ightarrow Q)land (P ightarrow eg Q)leftrightarrow eg P}

[ "Multimodal logic", "Propositional variable", "Zeroth-order logic" ]
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