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Phil 2233: Elementary Logic

Peter Bradley

TTh 10:-11:30

Hill 005

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Formalism

What do we mean by form?

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Logical Consistency: A set of statements are logically consistent if and only if they can all be true together.

Logically true: a statement is logically true if and only if it cannot be false.

Logically false: a statement is logically false if and only if it cannot be true.

Equivalence: two statments are logically equivalent if and only if they are true and false on all the same conditions.

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Either I will go to the store or I will not.

People follow him because he is a leader.

Diamonds are valuable because so many people want them.

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Ch 2: Truth-Functional Propositions

A proposition is truth-functional if and only if...

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Ch 2: Truth-Functional Propositions

A proposition is truth-functional if and only if its truth-value is determined entirely by the truth-values of the atomic propositions and the connectives that comprise it.

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A connective is used truth-functionally if and only if it is used to generate a compound sentence from one or more sentences in such a way that the truth-value of the generated compound is wholly determined by the truth-values of those one or more sentences from which the compound is generated, no matter what those truth-values may be.

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