Modus Ponens - Formal Notation

Formal Notation

The modus ponens rule may be written in sequent notation:

where is a metalogical symbol meaning that is a syntactic consequence of and in some logical system;

or as the statement of a truth-functional tautology or theorem of propositional logic:

where, and are propositions expressed in some logical system.

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