I have seen two a priori different definitions of locally connected space :
1) For all point $x$, and neighborhood $V$ of $x$, there is a connected neighborhood $C$ of $x$ such that $C\subseteq V$
2) For all point $x$, and open set $U$ containing $x$, there is an open connected neighborhood $O$ of $x$ such that $O\subseteq U$.
I imagine those two definitions are identical, but I don't see why.
The same thing for locally path-connected spaces, we can either use open neighborhoods or just neighborhoods, are the two definitions the same?
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$\begingroup$By definition a neighborhood of a point $x$ is a set $I$ that contains an open set $A$ such that $x\in A$. So 1) $\Rightarrow$ 2) by considering $U$ as your neighborhood; 2) $\Rightarrow$ 1) by considering the open set of the definition of neighborhood.
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