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in definitions of new terms. However, this usage of "if and only if" is relatively uncommon and overlooks the linguistic fact that the "if" of a definition is interpreted as meaning "if and only if". The majority of textbooks, research papers and articles (including English Knowledge (XXG) articles)
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a statement of the form "P iff Q" by proving either "if P, then Q" and "if Q, then P", or "if P, then Q" and "if not-P, then not-Q". Proving these pairs of statements sometimes leads to a more natural proof, since there are not obvious conditions in which one would infer a biconditional directly. An
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Theorems which have the form "P if and only Q" are much prized in mathematics. They give what are called "necessary and sufficient" conditions, and give completely equivalent and hopefully interesting new ways to say exactly the same
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follow the linguistic convention of interpreting "if" as "if and only if" whenever a mathematical definition is involved (as in "a topological space is compact if every open cover has a finite subcover"). Moreover, in the case of a
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It is somewhat unclear how "iff" was meant to be pronounced. In current practice, the single 'word' "iff" is almost always read as the four words "if and only if". However, in the preface of
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Compared with the standard semantics for FOL, the database semantics has a more efficient implementation. Instead of reasoning with sentences of the form:
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together with a "database (or logic programming) semantics". They give the example of the English sentence "Richard has two brothers, Geoffrey and John".
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demands something less I use Halmos' 'iff'". The authors of one discrete mathematics textbook suggest: "Should you need to pronounce iff, really
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half of the definition is interpreted as a sentence in the metalanguage stating that the sentences in the definition of a predicate are the
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between statements. The biconditional is true in two cases, where either both statements are true or both are false. The connective is
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show logical relationships among events, properties, and so forth. "P only if Q", "if P then Q", and "P→Q" all mean that P is a
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Kowalski, R., Dávila, J., Sartor, G. and Calejo, M., 2023. Logical English for law and education.
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so that people hear the difference from 'if'", implying that "iff" could be pronounced as .
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is used outside the field of logic as well. Wherever logic is applied, especially in
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as expressing in the metalanguage that the sentences in the database represent the
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In writing, phrases commonly used as alternatives to P "if and only if" Q include:
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knowledge that should be considered when drawing conclusions from the database.
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Southern California Philosophy for philosophy graduate students: "Just in Case"
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In Prolog: The Next 50 Years (pp. 287-299). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
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the knowledge relevant for problem solving in a given domain. It interprets
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While it can be a real time-saver, we don't recommend it in formal writing.
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The database semantics interprets the database (or program) as containing
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Engineering Writing by Design: Creating Formal Documents of Lasting Value
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discussions, it has the same meaning as above: it is an abbreviation for
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note (page 282), in effect, that it is often more natural to express
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Iff." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource.
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are "if and only if" statements; some texts — such as Kelley's
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Reading, Writing, and Proving: A Closer Look at Mathematics
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The database semantics is analogous to the legal principle
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Usage of the abbreviation "iff" first appeared in print in
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interpreted in the object language, in some such form as:
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X(Brother(Richard, X) iff X = Geoffrey or X = John).
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For other uses, see 1827:, American Mathematical Society, p.  1809:iff it is finite or countably infinite." 1253: 910:via command \iff or \Longleftrightarrow. 893: 877:, i.e., the symbol in logic formulas, is 855: 811: 791: 771: 745:It is equivalent to that produced by the 627: 600: 573: 546: 513: 492: 471: 443: 404: 366: 330: 292: 250: 223:, are used instead of these phrases; see 208: 188: 1109:, indicating that one statement is both 1376: 1058:is a subset but not a proper subset of 1010: 766:The corresponding logical symbols are " 749:, and opposite to that produced by the 622: 595: 568: 541: 508: 132:, there could be other scenarios where 1611:"XOR/XNOR/Odd Parity/Even Parity Gate" 104:), and can be likened to the standard 1435:http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Iff.html 1324:expressio unius est exclusio alterius 1113:for the other. This is an example of 951:. 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SIAM. p. 24. 1682:from the original on 9 August 2019 1466:Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics 1255: 641:{\displaystyle P\leftrightarrow Q} 533:{\displaystyle \neg P\land \neg Q} 524: 515: 418:{\displaystyle P\leftrightarrow Q} 270:{\displaystyle \neg P\land \neg Q} 261: 252: 25: 1621:from the original on 7 April 2022 1583:, UHM Department of Mathematics, 1527:"Conditionals and Biconditionals" 2230: 2219: 1823:A Primer of Mathematical Writing 1779:Discrete Algorithmic Mathematics 1361:If and only if in logic programs 1168:When "if" means "if and only if" 1048: 1013: 799:{\displaystyle \Leftrightarrow } 779:{\displaystyle \leftrightarrow } 451:{\displaystyle \leftrightarrow } 393: 355: 319: 281: 239: 216:{\displaystyle \Leftrightarrow } 196:{\displaystyle \leftrightarrow } 1587:from the original on 5 May 2000 1285:it uses sentences of the form: 939:Origin of iff and pronunciation 169:P precisely (or exactly) when Q 1125:in statements of definition). 896: 793: 773: 632: 605: 587:{\displaystyle P\rightarrow Q} 578: 445: 409: 371: 344:{\displaystyle P\rightarrow Q} 335: 210: 190: 1: 614:{\displaystyle P\leftarrow Q} 380:{\displaystyle P\leftarrow Q} 224: 59:Logical symbols representing 1919:Language Log: "Just in Case" 927:alternative is to prove the 1750:Nicholas J. 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Index

If, and only if
IFF (disambiguation)
Bidirectional traffic
Arrow (symbol)
logic
mathematics
philosophy
biconditional
logical connective
biconditional
material conditional
necessary and sufficient
material implication
logical formulae
§ Notation





truth table
XNOR gate
XOR gate
mathematical logic
first-order logic
propositional logic
metalogic
Łukasiewicz
Polish notation
logical connective

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