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Upside-Down Letter, Backwards Letter

2021

The logical quantifiers ∀ and ∃ described plainly as an upside-down letter and a backwards letter.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2021-01-01-upside-down-letter-backwards-letter/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

∀ (for every): "Upside-down letter," ∃ (there exists): "backwards letter." [A pondering figure]

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