De Morgan's laws for conjunction and disjunction

Identifier: F:de-morgan-laws
Proof route: smt-term-level
External status: proved
Axiom footprint: axeyum-ir.bool-evaluator, classical-two-valued-bool-semantics

Recorded description

For all propositions p and q: not (p and q) is equivalent to (not p) or (not q), and not (p or q) is equivalent to (not p) and (not q).

Formal statement

(assert (and (= (not (and p q)) (or (not p) (not q))) (= (not (or p q)) (and (not p) (not q)))))

Dependencies

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Evidence

de-morgan-laws-term-level

Kind: exhaustive-enumeration
Status: checked

Supports: For all propositions p and q: not (p and q) is equivalent to (not p) or (not q), and not (p or q) is equivalent to (not p) and (not q).

Checker command

test "$(cargo run -q -p axeyum-bench --example smtcomp_cli -- --evidence artifacts/facts/smt2/neg-demorgan-laws.smt2 2>/dev/null | tail -1)" = unsat

Evidence notes

Ran 2026-08-14: the file asserts the NEGATION of formal.statement and the solver reported `unsat` with `kind=unsat-term-level certified=1 arena=ok`. `unsat-term-level` is exhaustive evaluation of the 4 Boolean assignments by the axeyum-ir evaluator alone -- it trusts neither the bit-blaster, the CNF encoder, nor the SAT solver. `arena=ok` means Evidence::check re-ran that enumeration against a FRESH PARSE of the file, independent of anything the producing solve held in memory. Independently cross-checked: `z3 -smt2` on the same file also reports `unsat`.

Provenance

{
  "date": "2026-08-14",
  "established_by": "facts-logic lane, axeyum SAT/SMT front door",
  "source": "authored from the S:logic-and-proof strand of the math-education concept graph; statement written here, not copied",
  "prior_art": [
    {
      "citation": "Augustus De Morgan, Formal Logic (1847)",
      "establishes": "the two equivalences under their modern name; equivalent rules are recorded in medieval logic (William of Ockham, 14th c.) well before that",
      "attribution": "standard textbook attribution; this lane did not consult the primary source, and records the citation as the received one"
    }
  ]
}