| Description: The rule of modus
tollens. The rule says, "if 𝜓 is not true, and
𝜑 implies 𝜓, then 𝜑 must also
be not true". Modus
tollens is short for "modus tollendo tollens", a Latin phrase
that means
"the mode that by denying denies" - remark in [Sanford] p. 39. It is
also called denying the consequent. Modus tollens is closely related to
modus ponens ax-mp 5. Note that this rule is also valid in
intuitionistic logic. Inference associated with con3i 154. (Contributed
by NM, 19-Aug-1993.) (Proof shortened by Wolf Lammen,
11-Sep-2013.) |