de morgans law
1: change or to and or and to or
2: NOT terms on either side of operator
3: NOT everything that has changed
4: remove double nots
5: remove unnecessary brackets
double negation
removing double nots
association
remove brackets from an expression and regroup variables
commutation
order of application of two separate terms is not important
B v A = A v B
distribution
allows us to multiply or factor out an expression
A v ( B ^ C) = (A v B) ^ ( A v C)