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We subtract the intersection because adding the individual probabilities P(E)P(E) and P(F)P(F) counts the overlapping region twice. Subtracting P(E∩F)P(E \cap F) once corrects this double-counting so that every outcome in the union is counted exactly once.

Conditions: E and F are overlapping events in a probability space.