| Description: Define incompatibility,
or alternative denial ("not-and" or "nand"). See
dfnan2 1524 for an alternative. This is also called the
Sheffer stroke,
represented by a vertical bar, but we use a different symbol to avoid
ambiguity with other uses of the vertical bar. In the second edition of
Principia Mathematica (1927), Russell and Whitehead used the Sheffer
stroke and suggested it as a replacement for the "or" and
"not" operations
of the first edition. However, in practice, "or" and
"not" are more
widely used. After we define the constant true ⊤ (df-tru 1573) and
the constant false ⊥ (df-fal 1583), we will be able to prove these
truth table values: ((⊤ ⊼ ⊤) ↔
⊥) (trunantru 1611),
((⊤ ⊼ ⊥) ↔ ⊤) (trunanfal 1612), ((⊥ ⊼ ⊤)
↔ ⊤)
(falnantru 1613), and ((⊥ ⊼
⊥) ↔ ⊤) (falnanfal 1614).
Contrast with ∧ (df-an 401), ∨ (df-or 861), → (wi 4), and
⊻ (df-xor 1542). (Contributed by Jeff Hoffman,
19-Nov-2007.) |