Single Idea 9540

[catalogued under 4. Formal Logic / B. Propositional Logic PL / 2. Tools of Propositional Logic / b. Terminology of PL]

Full Idea

A 'value-assignment' (V) is when to each variable in the set V assigns either the value 1 or the value 0.

Gist of Idea

A 'value-assignment' (V) is when to each variable in the set V assigns either the value 1 or the value 0

Source

GE Hughes/M Cresswell (An Introduction to Modal Logic [1968], Ch.1)

Book Reference

Hughes,G./Cresswell,M.: 'An Introduction to Modal Logic' [Methuen 1972], p.10


A Reaction

In the interpreted version of the logic, 1 and 0 would become T (true) and F (false). The procedure seems to be called nowadays a 'valuation'.