Existential instantiation is a logical rule enabling the inference of a specific individual's existence from a generic existential statement. It's…
Ex falso quodlibet, or the principle of explosion, is a logical tenet where any conclusion, true or false, can be…
An elimination rule in logic simplifies formulas by removing connectives or quantifiers. It's crucial for deriving conclusions from premises, forming…
The distribution axiom, often referred to as axiom K, is fundamental in modal logic. It asserts that if a proposition…
A term is distributed in a categorical proposition when the statement refers to all members of the class designated by…
A valid deductive argument form where if a disjunction (P or Q) is true and one disjunct (P) is false,…
Deductive consequence, also known as syntactic consequence, refers to the relationship where a conclusion logically follows from premises based solely…
Assertion is a fundamental principle in logic, also known as pseudo modus ponens. It states that if A is true…