Theorem ontri1

Description: A trichotomy law for ordinal numbers. (Contributed by NM, 6-Nov-2003)

	Ref	Expression
Assertion	ontri1	⊢ ( ( 𝐴 ∈ On ∧ 𝐵 ∈ On ) → ( 𝐴 ⊆ 𝐵 ↔ ¬ 𝐵 ∈ 𝐴 ) )

Proof

Step	Hyp	Ref	Expression
1		eloni	⊢ ( 𝐴 ∈ On → Ord 𝐴 )
2		eloni	⊢ ( 𝐵 ∈ On → Ord 𝐵 )
3		ordtri1	⊢ ( ( Ord 𝐴 ∧ Ord 𝐵 ) → ( 𝐴 ⊆ 𝐵 ↔ ¬ 𝐵 ∈ 𝐴 ) )
4	1 2 3	syl2an	⊢ ( ( 𝐴 ∈ On ∧ 𝐵 ∈ On ) → ( 𝐴 ⊆ 𝐵 ↔ ¬ 𝐵 ∈ 𝐴 ) )