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[catalogued under 4. Formal Logic / B. Propositional Logic PL / 2. Tools of Propositional Logic / e. Axioms of PL]

Full Idea

The best known axiomatization of PL is Whitehead/Russell. There are four axioms: (p∨p)→p, q→(p∨q), (p→q)→(q∨p), and (q→r)→((p∨q)→(p∨r)), plus Substitution and Modus Ponens rules.

Gist of Idea

The best known axiomatization of PL is Whitehead/Russell, with four axioms and two rules

Source

report of B Russell/AN Whitehead (Principia Mathematica [1913]) by GE Hughes/M Cresswell - An Introduction to Modal Logic Ch.1

Book Reference

Hughes,G./Cresswell,M.: 'An Introduction to Modal Logic' [Methuen 1972], p.17