Symbolic
Language
More Symbolic Language
Truth-Tables
Methods of Deduction (inference)
Methods of Deduction (Replacement Rules)
100

This is is the name of a statement that does not contain any other statement as a component.

What is a simple statement?

100

This function flips the truth value from true to false and from false to true.

What is negation?

100

The truth table for a propositional schema should contain 2n rows, where 2 represents the two truth values—True and False—and n is this.

What is the number of propositional variables?

100

This rule of inference says:

if p then q

p

:. q

What is modus ponens?

100

This rule allows you to introduce or remove the disjunction or conjunction of a term with itself.

What is a tautology?

200

A truth-functional proposition whose component statements are connected by the truth-functional operator ‘and’ is called this.

What is a conjunction?

200

This relationship is usually expressed by the English phrase “if…then…” It is symbolically represented with a horseshoe.

What is material implication (or conditional)?

200

After we have determined how many rows we will be working with we start grouping our T’s and F’s on the table, beginning with the maximum number that we group together first. So, if our variables were 3 in number, we know it would be this.

What is 23 =8?

200

This rule allows you to bring two lines of an argument together.

What is conjunction?

200

Rule that allows you to reverse the positions of conjuncts or disjuncts.

What is commutation?

300

This rule is formed with two statements in English by inserting the word “or” between them.

What is disjunction?

300

The only time the conditional is false is when the antecedent is true and this is false.

What is the consequent?

300

Number of parenthesis units shown here:

[p v (q . r)]

What is a double parenthesis unit?

300

This is a sequence of statements—each of which is either a premise of a given argument or is deduced using the rules of inference from preceding statements in that sequence. The last statement in the sequence is the conclusion of the argument whose validity is being proved.

What is a formal proof of validity?

300

Rule that tells you if you are given a statement of the form ~ (p v q), you can replace it with the logically equivalent statement ~p · ~q.

What is DeMorgan's Theorem.

400

This rule states: if both are true, the entire function itself is true, otherwise it is false.

What is the rule for conjunction?

400

Essentially, this is just the conjunction of the conditions: if p then q and if q then p.

What is Material Equivalence?

400

The top of a truth table demonstrating an argument shows the variables, premises, and this.

What is the conclusion?

400

This rule of inference consists only of conditionals.

What is hypothetical syllogism?

400

“If you bother me (p) then I’ll punch you in the nose (q)” is logically equivalent to the statement: “Either you stop bothering me or I’ll punch you in the nose” through this rule of replacement.

What is material implication?

500

This truth-functional operator is true iff the first is true and the second is false, or the first is false and the second is true or both are true. The function is false only when all are false.

What is disjunction?

500

This symbolic logic ~(p v q) is the expression “neither p nor q.”  

This ~p v q is expressed as ___________

What is “either not p or q”?

500

In a truth-table, validity is determined by looking to see if a row exhibits all these as true and the conclusion as false.

What are the premises?

500

This rule is illustrated like this:

(p -> q) · (r -> s) 

p v r

:. q v s

What is constructive dilemma?

500

This rule states: “If we have both p and q, then we have r” is logically equivalent to “If we have p, then if we have q, then we have r.”

What is exportation?