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Principia mathematica, vol. 1 (of 3)

*3. THE LOGICAL PRODUCT OF TWO PROPOSITIONS.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Whitehead, Alfred North and Russell, Bertrand
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This is one form of the commutative law for logical multiplication. A more complete form is given in *4·3.
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Note that, in the above proof, "(1)" stands for the proposition as was explained in the proof of *2·31.
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The above is the law of contradiction.
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*3·26·27 will both be called the "principle of simplification," like *2·02, from which they are deduced. They will be referred to as "Simp."
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These two propositions will hereafter be referred to as "Syll"; they are usually more convenient than either *2·05 or *2·06.
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This is another form of transposition.
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This principle is analogous to *3·43. The analogy between *3·43 and *3·44 is of a sort which generally subsists between formulae concerning products and formulae concerning sums.
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This principle shows that we may multiply both sides of an implication by a common factor; hence it is called by Peano the "principle of the factor." We shall refer to it as "Fact." It is the analogue, for multiplication, of the primitive proposition *1·6.
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This proposition, or rather its analogue for classes, was proved by Leibniz, and evidently pleased him, since he calls it "præclarum theorema[48]."

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Principia mathematica, vol. 1 (of 3), Project Gutenberg eBook #78050

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