Solution

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Order configurations coordinatewise: when for every coordinate. An increasing event is an upward-closed set: and imply .
The finite-lattice FKG inequality states that a probability mass function satisfying the FKG lattice condition
is positively associated. Here meet in a lattice and join in a lattice are coordinatewise minimum and maximum. Thus for increasing observables ,
Taking indicator functions gives for all increasing events. The strictly positive version suffices for the Ising weights here; the theorem also holds for nonnegative log-supermodular weights of positive total mass.

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