Definition talk:Material Equivalence
No, I don't think merging the "iff" page into the "Material Equivalence" page is appropriate.
"Iff" as defined here is merely to indicate that it is a shorthand for "if and only if". It is used in the context of a natural language description of a mathematical concept. We do not want to send the (possibly) casual reader into a great long digression into logic when all we want to do is point out that no, "iff" is not a spelling mistake.
The initial reason for having such a link in the first place was because some misguided well-meaning person started going through replacing instances of "iff" with "if". So as to stop this, I put that page in place saying "iff means if and only if, and if you want to learn more, check out the page on Material Equivalence". Sometimes all you want is a one-line definition.
If I'm over-ruled, so be it. But please do not be swayed by how Wikipedia does it. This is NOT Wikipedia. --prime mover 00:36, 11 March 2011 (CST)
I agree with prime mover on this one. We don't want to make it harder for a novice to follow a proof than it has to be, and for most people a simple page explaining iff means if and only if will make more sense than a page of formal logic and truth tables. And it really isn't that much work to click the link from iff to material equivalence if you want to learn more. --Alec (talk) 01:34, 11 March 2011 (CST)
Good points...perhaps I will revert those edits. JamesMazur2 (talk) 07:31, 11 March 2011 (CST)
- Thx James - good man. --prime mover 13:28, 11 March 2011 (CST)
