diff --git a/src/data/set/basic.lean b/src/data/set/basic.lean
index 9e03989517ed3..20819b284872d 100644
--- a/src/data/set/basic.lean
+++ b/src/data/set/basic.lean
@@ -2328,6 +2328,15 @@ end
 @[simp] lemma image2_empty_left : image2 f ∅ t = ∅ := ext $ by simp
 @[simp] lemma image2_empty_right : image2 f s ∅ = ∅ := ext $ by simp
 
+lemma nonempty.image2 : s.nonempty → t.nonempty → (image2 f s t).nonempty :=
+λ ⟨a, ha⟩ ⟨b, hb⟩, ⟨_, mem_image2_of_mem ha hb⟩
+
+@[simp] lemma image2_nonempty_iff : (image2 f s t).nonempty ↔ s.nonempty ∧ t.nonempty :=
+⟨λ ⟨_, a, b, ha, hb, _⟩, ⟨⟨a, ha⟩, b, hb⟩, λ h, h.1.image2 h.2⟩
+
+@[simp] lemma image2_eq_empty_iff : image2 f s t = ∅ ↔ s = ∅ ∨ t = ∅ :=
+by simp_rw [←not_nonempty_iff_eq_empty, image2_nonempty_iff, not_and_distrib]
+
 lemma image2_inter_subset_left : image2 f (s ∩ s') t ⊆ image2 f s t ∩ image2 f s' t :=
 by { rintro _ ⟨a, b, ⟨h1a, h2a⟩, hb, rfl⟩, split; exact ⟨_, _, ‹_›, ‹_›, rfl⟩ }
 
@@ -2360,6 +2369,9 @@ def image3 (g : α → β → γ → δ) (s : set α) (t : set β) (u : set γ)
 @[simp] lemma mem_image3 : d ∈ image3 g s t u ↔ ∃ a b c, a ∈ s ∧ b ∈ t ∧ c ∈ u ∧ g a b c = d :=
 iff.rfl
 
+lemma image3_mono (hs : s ⊆ s') (ht : t ⊆ t') (hu : u ⊆ u') : image3 g s t u ⊆ image3 g s' t' u' :=
+λ x, Exists₃.imp $ λ a b c ⟨ha, hb, hc, hx⟩, ⟨hs ha, ht hb, hu hc, hx⟩
+
 @[congr] lemma image3_congr (h : ∀ (a ∈ s) (b ∈ t) (c ∈ u), g a b c = g' a b c) :
   image3 g s t u = image3 g' s t u :=
 by { ext x,
@@ -2385,11 +2397,6 @@ begin
   { rintro ⟨a, b, c, ha, hb, hc, rfl⟩, refine ⟨a, _, ha, ⟨b, c, hb, hc, rfl⟩, rfl⟩ }
 end
 
-lemma image2_assoc {ε'} {f : δ → γ → ε} {g : α → β → δ} {f' : α → ε' → ε} {g' : β → γ → ε'}
-  (h_assoc : ∀ a b c, f (g a b) c = f' a (g' b c)) :
-  image2 f (image2 g s t) u = image2 f' s (image2 g' t u) :=
-by simp only [image2_image2_left, image2_image2_right, h_assoc]
-
 lemma image_image2 (f : α → β → γ) (g : γ → δ) :
   g '' image2 f s t = image2 (λ a b, g (f a b)) s t :=
 begin
@@ -2424,8 +2431,38 @@ by simp [nonempty_def.mp h, ext_iff]
 @[simp] lemma image2_right (h : s.nonempty) : image2 (λ x y, y) s t = t :=
 by simp [nonempty_def.mp h, ext_iff]
 
-lemma nonempty.image2 (hs : s.nonempty) (ht : t.nonempty) : (image2 f s t).nonempty :=
-by { cases hs with a ha, cases ht with b hb, exact ⟨f a b, ⟨a, b, ha, hb, rfl⟩⟩ }
+lemma image2_assoc {ε'} {f : δ → γ → ε} {g : α → β → δ} {f' : α → ε' → ε} {g' : β → γ → ε'}
+  (h_assoc : ∀ a b c, f (g a b) c = f' a (g' b c)) :
+  image2 f (image2 g s t) u = image2 f' s (image2 g' t u) :=
+by simp only [image2_image2_left, image2_image2_right, h_assoc]
+
+lemma image2_comm {g : β → α → γ} (h_comm : ∀ a b, f a b = g b a) : image2 f s t = image2 g t s :=
+(image2_swap _ _ _).trans $ by simp_rw h_comm
+
+lemma image2_left_comm {δ'} {f : α → δ → ε} {g : β → γ → δ} {f' : α → γ → δ'} {g' : β → δ' → ε}
+  (h_left_comm : ∀ a b c, f a (g b c) = g' b (f' a c)) :
+  image2 f s (image2 g t u) = image2 g' t (image2 f' s u) :=
+by { rw [image2_swap f', image2_swap f], exact image2_assoc (λ _ _ _, h_left_comm _ _ _) }
+
+lemma image2_right_comm {δ'} {f : δ → γ → ε} {g : α → β → δ} {f' : α → γ → δ'} {g' : δ' → β → ε}
+  (h_right_comm : ∀ a b c, f (g a b) c = g' (f' a c) b) :
+  image2 f (image2 g s t) u = image2 g' (image2 f' s u) t :=
+by { rw [image2_swap g, image2_swap g'], exact image2_assoc (λ _ _ _, h_right_comm _ _ _) }
+
+lemma image_image2_distrib {α' β'} {g : γ → δ} {f' : α' → β' → δ} {g₁ : α → α'} {g₂ : β → β'}
+  (h_distrib : ∀ a b, g (f a b) = f' (g₁ a) (g₂ b)) :
+  (image2 f s t).image g = image2 f' (s.image g₁) (t.image g₂) :=
+by simp_rw [image_image2, image2_image_left, image2_image_right, h_distrib]
+
+lemma image_image2_distrib_left {α'} {g : γ → δ} {f' : α' → β → δ} {g' : α → α'}
+  (h_distrib : ∀ a b, g (f a b) = f' (g' a) b) :
+  (image2 f s t).image g = image2 f' (s.image g') t :=
+(image_image2_distrib h_distrib).trans $ by rw image_id'
+
+lemma image_image2_distrib_right {β'} {g : γ → δ} {f' : α → β' → δ} {g' : β → β'}
+  (h_distrib : ∀ a b, g (f a b) = f' a (g' b)) :
+  (image2 f s t).image g = image2 f' s (t.image g') :=
+(image_image2_distrib h_distrib).trans $ by rw image_id'
 
 end n_ary_image
 
diff --git a/src/logic/basic.lean b/src/logic/basic.lean
index 05dc66db6e613..708d36d580179 100644
--- a/src/logic/basic.lean
+++ b/src/logic/basic.lean
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ end equality
 section quantifiers
 variables {α : Sort*}
 
-section congr
+section dependent
 variables {β : α → Sort*} {γ : Π a, β a → Sort*} {δ : Π a b, γ a b → Sort*}
   {ε : Π a b c, δ a b c → Sort*}
 
@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ lemma forall₅_congr {p q : Π a b c d, ε a b c d → Prop}
   (∀ a b c d e, p a b c d e) ↔ ∀ a b c d e, q a b c d e :=
 forall_congr $ λ a, forall₄_congr $ h a
 
-lemma exists₂_congr {p q : Π a, β a → Prop}  (h : ∀ a b, p a b ↔ q a b) :
+lemma exists₂_congr {p q : Π a, β a → Prop} (h : ∀ a b, p a b ↔ q a b) :
   (∃ a b, p a b) ↔ ∃ a b, q a b :=
 exists_congr $ λ a, exists_congr $ h a
 
@@ -916,22 +916,30 @@ lemma exists₅_congr {p q : Π a b c d, ε a b c d → Prop}
   (∃ a b c d e, p a b c d e) ↔ ∃ a b c d e, q a b c d e :=
 exists_congr $ λ a, exists₄_congr $ h a
 
-end congr
+lemma forall_imp {p q : α → Prop} (h : ∀ a, p a → q a) : (∀ a, p a) → ∀ a, q a := λ h' a, h a (h' a)
 
-variables {ι β : Sort*} {κ : ι → Sort*} {p q : α → Prop} {b : Prop}
+lemma forall₂_imp {p q : Π a, β a → Prop} (h : ∀ a b, p a b → q a b) :
+  (∀ a b, p a b) → ∀ a b, q a b :=
+forall_imp $ λ i, forall_imp $ h i
 
-lemma forall_imp (h : ∀ a, p a → q a) : (∀ a, p a) → ∀ a, q a :=
-λ h' a, h a (h' a)
+lemma forall₃_imp {p q : Π a b, γ a b → Prop} (h : ∀ a b c, p a b c → q a b c) :
+  (∀ a b c, p a b c) → ∀ a b c, q a b c :=
+forall_imp $ λ a, forall₂_imp $ h a
 
-lemma forall₂_imp {p q : Π i, κ i → Prop} (h : ∀ i j, p i j → q i j) :
-  (∀ i j, p i j) → ∀ i j, q i j :=
-forall_imp $ λ i, forall_imp $ h i
+lemma Exists.imp {p q : α → Prop}  (h : ∀ a, (p a → q a)) : (∃ a, p a) → ∃ a, q a :=
+exists_imp_exists h
 
-lemma Exists.imp (h : ∀ a, (p a → q a)) (p : ∃ a, p a) : ∃ a, q a := exists_imp_exists h p
+lemma Exists₂.imp {p q : Π a, β a → Prop} (h : ∀ a b, p a b → q a b) :
+  (∃ a b, p a b) → ∃ a b, q a b :=
+Exists.imp $ λ a, Exists.imp $ h a
 
-lemma Exists₂.imp {p q : Π i, κ i → Prop} (h : ∀ i j, p i j → q i j) :
-  (∃ i j, p i j) → ∃ i j, q i j :=
-Exists.imp $ λ i, Exists.imp $ h i
+lemma Exists₃.imp {p q : Π a b, γ a b → Prop} (h : ∀ a b c, p a b c → q a b c) :
+  (∃ a b c, p a b c) → ∃ a b c, q a b c :=
+Exists.imp $ λ a, Exists₂.imp $ h a
+
+end dependent
+
+variables {ι β : Sort*} {κ : ι → Sort*} {p q : α → Prop} {b : Prop}
 
 lemma exists_imp_exists' {p : α → Prop} {q : β → Prop} (f : α → β) (hpq : ∀ a, p a → q (f a))
   (hp : ∃ a, p a) : ∃ b, q b :=