Description: Law of identity (reflexivity of class equality). Theorem 6.4 of Quine p. 41.
This is part of Frege's eighth axiom per Proposition 54 of Frege1879 p. 50; see also biid . An early mention of this law can be found in Aristotle,Metaphysics, Z.17, 1041a10-20. (Thanks to Stefan Allan and BJ for this information.) (Contributed by NM, 21-Jun-1993) (Revised by BJ, 14-Oct-2017)
Ref | Expression | ||
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Assertion | eqid | ⊢ 𝐴 = 𝐴 |
Step | Hyp | Ref | Expression |
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1 | biid | ⊢ ( 𝑥 ∈ 𝐴 ↔ 𝑥 ∈ 𝐴 ) | |
2 | 1 | eqriv | ⊢ 𝐴 = 𝐴 |