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Negation

We illustrate why the negation of tex2html_wrap_inline12 is tex2html_wrap_inline14 using two sets X and Y, each having two elements. In the diagrams below, if p(x,y) is true we mark the square red and if it is false then we leave it white. There are of course 16 such diagrams.

Now consider the statement tex2html_wrap_inline12 . For this to be true we must have one of the following diagrams. This is because for at least one fixed x and every element of Y the statement is true. Thus there must be at least one red row.

It is false for the remaining nine diagrams shown below (since no row is all red).

The situation is reversed for the statement tex2html_wrap_inline14 . In this case, the statement is true if there is no completely red row and false when there is.

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Peter Williams
Tue Aug 13 14:25:47 PDT 1996