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Biconditional elimination

 

Biconditional elimination

Biconditional elimination allows one to infer a conditional from a biconditional: if ( A B ) is true, then one may infer one direction of the biconditional, either ( A B ) or ( B A ).

For example, if it's true that I'm breathing if and only if I'm alive, then it's true that if I'm breathing, I'm alive; likewise, it's true that if I'm alive, I'm breathing.

Formally:

( A ↔ B )   ∴ ( A → B ) also

 ( A ↔ B )   ∴ ( B → A )
   

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