Metamath Proof Explorer


Theorem dfbi

Description: Definition df-bi rewritten in an abbreviated form to help intuitive understanding of that definition. Note that it is a conjunction of two implications; one which asserts properties that follow from the biconditional and one which asserts properties that imply the biconditional. (Contributed by NM, 15-Aug-2008)

Ref Expression
Assertion dfbi
|- ( ( ( ph <-> ps ) -> ( ( ph -> ps ) /\ ( ps -> ph ) ) ) /\ ( ( ( ph -> ps ) /\ ( ps -> ph ) ) -> ( ph <-> ps ) ) )

Proof

Step Hyp Ref Expression
1 dfbi2
 |-  ( ( ph <-> ps ) <-> ( ( ph -> ps ) /\ ( ps -> ph ) ) )
2 dfbi2
 |-  ( ( ( ph <-> ps ) <-> ( ( ph -> ps ) /\ ( ps -> ph ) ) ) <-> ( ( ( ph <-> ps ) -> ( ( ph -> ps ) /\ ( ps -> ph ) ) ) /\ ( ( ( ph -> ps ) /\ ( ps -> ph ) ) -> ( ph <-> ps ) ) ) )
3 1 2 mpbi
 |-  ( ( ( ph <-> ps ) -> ( ( ph -> ps ) /\ ( ps -> ph ) ) ) /\ ( ( ( ph -> ps ) /\ ( ps -> ph ) ) -> ( ph <-> ps ) ) )