Advanced Engineering Mathematics
Advanced Engineering Mathematics
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ISBN: 9780470458365
Author: Erwin Kreyszig
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
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Identify the error or errors in this argument that supposedlyshows that if ∃xP(x)∧∃xQ(x)is true then∃x(P(x)∧Q(x))is true.

  1. xP(x)∨∃xQ(x) Premise
  2. xP(x) Simplification from (1)
  3. P(c) Existential instantiation from (2)
  4. xQ(x) Simplification from (1)
  5. Q(c) Existential instantiation from (4)
  6. P(c)∧Q(c) Conjunction from (3) and (5)
  7. x(P(x)∧Q(x)) Existential generalization
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