Description: Axiom of Quantifier
Substitution. One of the equality and substitution
axioms of predicate calculus with equality. Axiom scheme C11' in [Megill]
p. 448 (p. 16 of the preprint). It apparently does not otherwise appear
in the literature but is easily proved from textbook predicate calculus by
cases. This is a technical axiom wherein the antecedent is ordinarily
true only if and
are the same variable,
and in that case it
doesn't matter which one you use in a quantifier. (Strictly speaking, the
antecedent is also true when and are
different variables in
the case of a one-element domain of discourse, but then the consequent is
also true in a one-element domain. For compatibility with traditional
predicate calculus all our predicate calculus axioms hold in a one-element
domain, but this becomes unimportant in set theory where we show in dtru 2740
that at least 2 things exist.) |