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Noun Concept
Categories: Logical truth, Mathematical proofs
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direct proof
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A way of showing the truth or falsehood of a given statement by a straightforward combination of established facts, usually axioms, existing lemmas and theorems, without making any further assumptions. Open English WordNet
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A way of showing the truth or falsehood of a given statement by a straightforward combination of established facts, usually axioms, existing lemmas and theorems, without making any further assumptions. Open English WordNet
In mathematics and logic, a direct proof is a way of showing the truth or falsehood of a given statement by a straightforward combination of established facts, usually axioms, existing lemmas and theorems, without making any further assumptions. Wikipedia
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A proof by contraposition of the implication p -> q is a direct proof of ¬q ->¬p (the contrapositive of p -> q). Open English WordNet
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