What are the steps for using natural deduction in logic?

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Logic: Natural Deduction

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Can anyone lead me off here? I've broken down the three premises using 'for all' elimination, now I need to start a subderivation with an assumption, but I'm not sure what!

Right now I'm unsure of the strategy I need to use to get to the conclusion, what do I want to be left with to manipulate into the conclusion?

Would be grateful for any help!

A list of the inference rules I have learned so far for Natural deduction can be found HERE
 
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I've reduced the problem to the above, if I can prove the above then I can prove the whole thing! (I think..!)

Any help on this one? Thanks :)
 
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Apparantly my above inference isn't valid so I cannot proceed with this method

My initial assumption is assuming P(a,b) & P(b,a)

Really stuck, would appreciate help!

Thanks