If a digital circuit design system falsely validates an AND gate as equivalent to an OR gate, which logical property has been violated?

💡 Explanation

The system violates soundness because a sound system guarantees that every provable statement is also true in the underlying model. Therefore, the proof system incorrectly identifies equivalence, rather than maintaining its established properties of the gates.

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