Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

direct proof

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English

Syllables: di-rec-t proof
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

a way of showing the truth or falsehood of a given statement by a straightforward combination of established facts, usually axioms, existing lemmas and theorems, without making any further assumptions.

Example Sentences

"A proof by contraposition of the implication p ⇒ q is a direct proof of ¬q ⇒ ¬p (the contrapositive of p ⇒ q)."

Questions

What does direct proof mean?: a way of showing the truth or falsehood of a given statement by a straightforward combination of established facts, usually axioms, existing lemmas and theorems, without making any further assumptions.

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