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Some Calculations in Logic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

C. C. H. Barker
C. C. H. Barker*
Affiliation:
University College, Bangor
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The traditional two-valued logical calculus is concerned with propositions and their truth-values, true or false. Since the work of George Boole (1) these truth-values have been associated with the symbols 1, 0 respectively. If p denotes a proposition we use the same symbol p to denote its truth-value; thus if p is true we write p = 1 and if p is false we write p = 0. Then derived propositions such as “not p”, “p and q” have them selves truth-values which depend on those of p, q and are thus functions of the truth-values p, q.

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Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 41 , Issue 336 , May 1957 , pp. 108 - 111
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1957

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References

1. Boole, George The Laws of Thought (1854).Google Scholar
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