Affine space/Affine subspace/Intersection property/Fact/Proof
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Proof
 If the intersection is empty, then the statement holds by definition. So let . We may write the affine subspaces as
with linear subspaces . Let
which is a linear subspace, due to fact (1). We claim that
From , we can deduce
with , so that holds. If holds, then directly follows.