Disjunction introduction
Disjunction introduction or addition is a rule of inference of propositional logic and almost every other deduction system. The rule makes it possible to introduce disjunctions to logical proofs. It is the inference that if P is true, then P or Q must be true.
An example in English:
The rule can be expressed as:
where the rule is that whenever instances of "" appear on lines of a proof, "" can be placed on a subsequent line.
More generally it's also a simple valid argument form, this means that if the premise is true, then the conclusion is also true as any rule of inference should be, and an immediate inference, as it has a single proposition in its premises.
Disjunction introduction is not a rule in some paraconsistent logics because in combination with other rules of logic, it leads to explosion and paraconsistent logic tries to avoid explosion and to be able to reason with contradictions. One of the solutions is to introduce disjunction with over rules. See.The disjunction introduction rule may be written in sequent notation:
where is a metalogical symbol meaning that is a syntactic consequence of in some logical system;
and expressed as a truth-functional tautology or theorem of propositional logic:
where and are propositions expressed in some formal system.
