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Falsum

The absurd proposition: it has no proof, and from it anything follows.

Equivalently, as a statement of implication: for every proposition .
Part of the logical framework beneath ZFC (classical first-order logic with equality): taken as given rather than proven, it belongs to the language the set-theoretic axioms are stated in.

Remarks

has no introduction rule, and that absence is its meaning (see the logical framework). Its role is to make refutation expressible: negation is defined as implication into . A theory is consistent exactly when is not derivable in it. In Lean, False is the inductive proposition with no constructors, and ex falso is its eliminator, False.elim.

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