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  - Logic 
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tags: [propositional_logic]
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This is also known as *proof by contradiction*. You start with an assumption declared in a subproof. If you can derive a contradiction from this assumption (typically from the introduction of another proposition and its negation), then you are permitted to derive the negation of the auxiliary assumption in the main proof. 
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