Ch 4 Quantifiers, negation and proof techniques Flashcards

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Formula for negating a statement

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Change all ‘for all’ symbols with ‘there exists’ and vice versa. Change s.t A to s.t not A

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How to prove one statement is a negation of the other

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They will have opposite truth tables

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Proof techniques

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Indirect proof
Contrapositive proof (to prove if A then B, instead prove if not B then not A)
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Negation of ‘A implies B’

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A and not B

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Going from infinite unions and intersections to sets general rule

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Unions give an interval, intersections give numbers

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