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Modus ponendo tollens

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is the principle that, if the negation of a conjunction holds and also one of its conjuncts, then the negation of its other conjunct holds."
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Politzer, Guy & Carles, Laure. 2001. 'Belief Revision and Uncertain Reasoning'.
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London: Routledge. p.  358:this can be represented as: 698:{\displaystyle \neg \neg A} 295:. It is closely related to 982: 258:Existential generalization 63:Biconditional introduction 249:Universal generalization 89:Disjunction introduction 76:Conjunction introduction 46:Implication introduction 477:{\displaystyle A\,|\,B} 896:Stone, Jon R. 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Index

Transformation rules
Propositional calculus
Rules of inference
Implication introduction
elimination (modus ponens)
Biconditional introduction
elimination
Conjunction introduction
elimination
Disjunction introduction
elimination
Disjunctive
hypothetical syllogism
Constructive
destructive dilemma
Absorption
modus tollens
modus ponendo tollens
Negation introduction
Rules of replacement
Associativity
Commutativity
Distributivity
Double negation
De Morgan's laws
Transposition
Material implication
Exportation
Tautology
Predicate logic

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