MODR 2640 Lecture Notes - Truth Table, Tilde
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Either sam is fighting with his wife or his business is failing. Exclusive: rules it out: truth-functional compound statement. A truth functional compound statement is one whose truth-value is completely determined by the truth- value of its components. That"s why we can have a truth table for these symbols: punctuation. A, b, c-- abbreviations: express statements p, q, r-- variables: can be replaced by statements. But this is ambiguous (a b) c. These are different statements because they can have different truth-values. Main connective = connective which applies to the whole sentence.