• Rhynoplaz
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    26 months ago

    Wait. If they are effectively the same statement, wouldn’t that mean they ARE equal?

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      If B then A is the same as if X then Y is the same as if A then B. They are saying it’s the same as the OP. Changing the letters around doesn’t change the meaning since the letters are just placeholders.

      Now if you said If A then B AND If B then A as one it wouldn’t be the same because A and B would have to keep the same meaning.

      • Rhynoplaz
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        6 months ago

        But they switched the order in only the first half of the statement. I don’t know if everyone commenting caught that.

        Is “If B then A” equal to “B if and only if A”?

        This IS different from the original question.

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      I mean it is the definition of “if and only if”. And by commutativity we also know that A iff B is equal to B iff A

      • Rhynoplaz
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        26 months ago

        Oh yeah. I was very confused as to what that meant, but I learned something today.

        • @[email protected]
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          16 months ago

          Yeah if vs iff can be confusing at first. Trying to understand it with normal grammar doesn’t work right. It’s a lot more helpful to grok the symbols and so the truth tables by hand to see how they fit together