Be smart - learn mathematics!/Implications and equivalences

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Now I hope you aren't tong-tied after "implication"; what it is, is an "IF, THEN" relationship. A simple example:

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This is already an implication. In this case, "it rains" implies "the sky it gray". Have you got that? Let's do another one:

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Now you may think that's boring, but what we can do with it is to construct new knowledge - just out of the blue! This is what scientists do, and it is just exciting.

Note that in order to be able to write quicker, we write instead of "if" and "then":

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In the end, we will have to write a whole lot of stuff, so using the symbol is totally useful.

Constructing new knowledge

Let's say we have two implications, say

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Then we can deduce:

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Why? Because whenever it rains, the sky is gray, and therefore it is darker than usual.

It's true, isn't it?

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