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Line 67: ::It can be said that just one factor is a derivative, and it is [[vacuous truth\|vacuously true]] that the others are not, because there are not others! To go from case ''n'' to case ''n'' + 1 is trivial if ''n'' ≥ 2, but impossible if ''n'' = 1. To go from case ''n'' to case ''n'' + 1, one must ''use'' the case ''n'' = 2.

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