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Propositional Logic:
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branch of deductive reasoning that deals with logical (truth-functional) relations among statements
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Symbolic Logic:
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modern deductive logic that uses symbols
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Statement (claim, proposition):
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assertion that something is or is not the case.
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Simple statement:
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does not consist of other statements linked together by connectives.
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Compound statement:
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built up out of other statements using connectives
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Variables
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letters used to represent statements in symbolic logic
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Conjunction:
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compound statement joined by “and” (&) to form a compound statement.
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Conjunct:
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component statement in a conjunction
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Disjunction:
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a compound statement of the form “either p or q
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Disjunct:
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component statement in a disjunction
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Conditional:
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statement of the form “if p then q,” where p and q could be simple or compound statements
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