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OpenStudy (anonymous):

What is an indirect proof?

OpenStudy (unklerhaukus):

a proof that shows it cannot be false.

OpenStudy (mertsj):

A proof that begins by assuming the opposite of the thing you are trying to prove is true. Then you show that that assumption leads to a contradiction.

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