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Single Idea 17764

[filed under theme 4. Formal Logic / B. Propositional Logic PL / 3. Truth Tables ]

Full Idea

Boolean connectives are interpreted as functions on the set {1,0}.

Gist of Idea

Boolean connectives are interpreted as functions on the set {1,0}

Source

Michal Walicki (Introduction to Mathematical Logic [2012], 5.1)

Book Ref

Walicki,Michal: 'Introduction to Mathematical Logic' [World Scientific 2012], p.143


A Reaction

1 and 0 are normally taken to be true (T) and false (F). Thus the functions output various combinations of true and false, which are truth tables.


The 9 ideas with the same theme [displaying logical relations in terms of true and false]:

Truth tables give prior conditions for logic, but are outside the system, and not definitions [Tarski]
Truth-tables are good for showing invalidity [Lemmon]
A truth-table test is entirely mechanical, but this won't work for more complex logic [Lemmon]
Truth-tables are dubious in some cases, and may be a bad way to explain connective meaning [Dummett]
Until the 1960s the only semantics was truth-tables [Enderton]
Each line of a truth table is a model [Fitting/Mendelsohn]
Truth tables assume truth functionality, and are just pictures of truth functions [Sider]
In classical/realist logic the connectives are defined by truth-tables [Friend]
Boolean connectives are interpreted as functions on the set {1,0} [Walicki]