PHIL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Steffi Graf, Monica Seles, Sentence Clause Structure
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It is often easy to see that one claim follows from another, but to explain why can be difficult. Propositions are made into compound statements using connectives. Roses are red. wrong, cannot use the same letter to represent different sentences. And is not always used to connect two distinct sentences. Steffi graf and monica seles are tennis players. Steffi graf and monica seles are playing each other. even though this sentence has an and in it but it is really just one sentence and cannot be translated to steffi graf is playing monica seles. Monica seles is playing steffi graf because those two sentences are the same and redundant. Jack, jill and wendle went up the hill. J & (l & w) or (j & l) & w because & is only supposed to join two things together. Jack and jill went up the hill and fell down the hill.