Disjunction elimination

Summary

In propositional logic, disjunction elimination (sometimes named proof by cases, case analysis, or or elimination) is the valid argument form and rule of inference that allows one to eliminate a disjunctive statement from a logical proof. It is the inference that if a statement $P$ implies a statement $Q$ and a statement $R$ also implies $Q$, then if either $P$ or $R$ is true, then $Q$ has to be true. The reasoning is simple: since at least one of the statements P and R is true, and since either of them would be sufficient to entail Q, Q is certainly true.