| Description: Axiom to quantify a
variable over a formula in which it does not occur.
Axiom C5 in [Megill] p. 444 (p. 11 of
the preprint). Also appears as
Axiom B6 (p. 75) of system S2 of [Tarski] p. 77 and Axiom C5-1 of
[Monk2] p. 113.
(This theorem simply repeats ax-5 1943 so that we can include the following
note, which applies only to the obsolete axiomatization.)
This axiom is logically redundant in the (logically complete)
predicate calculus axiom system consisting of ax-gen 1828, ax-c4 39765,
ax-c5 39764, ax-11 2194, ax-c7 39766, ax-7 2041, ax-c9 39771, ax-c10 39767, ax-c11 39768,
ax-8 2147, ax-9 2155, ax-c14 39772, ax-c15 39770, and ax-c16 39773: in that system,
we can derive any instance of ax-5 1943 not containing wff variables by
induction on formula length, using ax5eq 39813 and ax5el 39818 for the basis
together with hbn 2330, hbal 2204, and hbim 2334.
However, if we omit this
axiom, our development would be quite inconvenient since we could work
only with specific instances of wffs containing no wff variables - this
axiom introduces the concept of a setvar variable not occurring in a wff
(as opposed to just two setvar variables being distinct). (Contributed
by NM, 19-Aug-2017.) (New usage is discouraged.)
(Proof modification is discouraged.) |
