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Translingual
Description
A horizontally reversed capital letter E.
Etymology
Introduced by Giuseppe Peano in Formulaire de mathematiqués (1897), from the uppercase Latin letter E. The modern variable-binding syntax first appeared in Principia Mathematica (1910).
Symbol
∃
- (mathematics, logic) The existential quantifier, meaning "there exists (at least one)".
- Synonym: ⋁
- Antonym: ∄
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