3.3. Negations as premises

3.3.0. Overview

A second group of rules for negation interchanges the roles of an affirmative sentence and its negation.

3.3.1. Indirect proof
The basic principles for negation describe its role as a premise only in reductio arguments but a reductio is always available as an argument of last resort.

3.3.2. Using lemmas to complete reductios
The role negative resources play will be to contradict other sentences; since what they contradict must often be introduced as a lemma, a use of lemmas is built into the rule for exploiting negative resources.

3.3.3. More examples
These new rules permit some new approaches to entailments that could be established using the last section’s rule; but they also support some further entailments.