Description: 2 of 3 axioms for
propositional calculus due to Lukasiewicz. Copy of
luk-2 1581 or pm2.18 122, but introduced as an axiom. The core idea
behind
this axiom is, that if something can be implied from both an antecedent,
and separately from its negation, then the antecedent is irrelevant to the
consequent, and can safely be dropped. This is perhaps better seen from
the following slightly extended version (related to pm2.65 184):
     
  . (Contributed by Wolf
Lammen, 17-Dec-2018.) (New usage is
discouraged.) |