Logical Symbols - Research Article from World of Mathematics

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 3 pages of information about Logical Symbols.

Logical Symbols - Research Article from World of Mathematics

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 3 pages of information about Logical Symbols.
This section contains 614 words
(approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Logical Symbols Encyclopedia Article

Logical symbols are part of a modern logical system for expressing rational thought and common patterns of reasoning. These symbols are used to clearly represent often times highly complex logical relationships between statements. There are five special symbols that are employed as statement connectives or operators; these are the logical symbols. The five logical symbols are all truth-functional connectives and will be discussed in more detail below. The symbols are ~ (also symbolized as ¬), & (also symbolized as or ^), v, (also symbolized as ⊃), and <-> (also symbolized as ). Logical symbols are used in a language that has several parts. Propositions are the statements that can be either true or false. These individual statements are usually represented by capital letters of the alphabet and are called statement constants. They are normal declarative sentences but are represented by statement constants for convenience. The statement connectives are the logical symbols...

(read more)

This section contains 614 words
(approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Logical Symbols Encyclopedia Article
Copyrights
Gale
Logical Symbols from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.