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Foundation·F07

Biconditional

A if and only if B: implication in both directions.

Defined from implication and conjunction.
In words
A if and only if B means that A implies B and B implies A.
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

Purely an abbreviation, with no rules of its own. It is the workhorse of definitions: a definition on this wiki typically has the shape "the new symbol holds some formula in old symbols", as in D001 or D005. (The metalanguage arrow written between displayed formulas is the same idea, one level up.) In Lean, Iff is a structure bundling the two directions as .mp and .mpr.