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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2015 Digital systems, linear algebra, introduction to formal proof (resit) 8 b Solution by
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Let and abbreviateAssume and eliminate the existential quantifier using a fresh eigenvariable . Inside that subproof, specialize at . Write . The premise supplies , so a disjunction elimination rule finishes the contradiction:Line 7 abbreviates two consecutive universal quantifier elimination rule applications; no new rule is used. The fresh witness is absent from , the assumed existential statement and the exported , so the existential quantifier elimination rule satisfies its eigenvariable condition. This is the self-application behind the barber paradox, written entirely with the supplied rules.
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