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The sentence
There exists an x such that P(x)
is denoted by

The sentence
There exists exactly one x such that P(x)
is denoted by

There are two parts to proving a sentence of this form.
- Existence Part. Prove that there is an x such that P(x) is
true.
- Uniqueness Part. Here you must prove that if there are two
elements x and z such that P(x) and P(z) are each true, then x=z.
Symbolically,
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