Vel (symbol)

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Vel^[1] (∨) (vel is "or" in Latin) is a symbol used to represent:

Logical disjunction in propositional logic
Join in lattice theory

It was used by Russell and Whitehead in Principia Mathematica. In Unicode the symbol is encoded U+2228 ∨ logical or (HTML: ∨ &or;) and by \vee and \lor in TeX. The opposite symbol (∧) is \wedge or \land in TeX.

References

↑ Whitehead, A.N., and Russell, Bertrand, Principia Mathematica

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Common logical symbols

& ∨ ¬ ~ → ⊃ ≡ \| ∀ ∃ ⊤ ⊥ ⊢ ⊨ ∴ ∵

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