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Connectives and Truth Values
You will be able to
- understand the purpose and uses of propositional logic.
- understand the meaning, symbols, and uses of the four logical connectives—conjunction, disjunction, negation, and conditional.
- define statement and explain the distinction between simple and compound statements.
- translate simple statements into symbolic form.
- construct a truth table and use it to test the validity of arguments.
- identify the situations in which conjunctions, disjunctions, negations, and conditionals are true or false.
- understand the structure of conditional statements and the various ways in which they can be expressed.
Checking for Validity
You will be able to
- determine the validity of very simple arguments using truth tables.
- use parentheses effectively in expressing statements in symbolic form.
- use the short method to evaluate complex arguments.