diff --git a/Logic/General_concepts/Logical_indeterminacy.md b/Logic/General_concepts/Logical_indeterminacy.md index d2cd4b6..3fc4722 100644 --- a/Logic/General_concepts/Logical_indeterminacy.md +++ b/Logic/General_concepts/Logical_indeterminacy.md @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Cannot be consistently denied as there is no possibility of it being false. It i ## Formal definition > A proposition P is truth-functionally indeterminate if and only if it is neither truth-functionally true or truth-functionally false. +> should be avoided in arguments, they 'prove' everything whi ``` P diff --git a/Logic/General_concepts/Logical_possibility_and_necessity.md b/Logic/General_concepts/Logical_possibility_and_necessity.md index 4862006..45e4602 100644 --- a/Logic/General_concepts/Logical_possibility_and_necessity.md +++ b/Logic/General_concepts/Logical_possibility_and_necessity.md @@ -34,6 +34,6 @@ From this we can derive the following property of logical possibility: ## Logical necessity -A sentence is _logically necessary_ if it is true in every logically possible circumstance which is to say: true on every possible truth functional assignment. Necessity and [logical truth](/Logic/General_concepts/Logical_truth_and_falsity.md#logical-truth) are therefore synonyms: anything that is logically true (a tautology) is true by necessity (could not be otherwise.) +A proposition is _logically necessary_ if it is true in every logically possible circumstance which is to say: true on every possible truth functional assignment. Necessity and [logical truth](/Logic/General_concepts/Logical_truth_and_falsity.md#logical-truth) are therefore synonyms: anything that is logically true (a tautology) is true by necessity (could not be otherwise.) Further, every logical truth is logically possible but not everything that is logically possible is logically true. It is possible that it is raining but this is not logically necessary - it could be otherwise, i.e not raining. However it is not possible that it could be both raining and not raining. diff --git a/Logic/Laws_and_theorems.md/Corresponding_material_and_biconditional.md b/Logic/Laws_and_theorems.md/Corresponding_material_and_biconditional.md index 5a03d2e..b309db1 100644 --- a/Logic/Laws_and_theorems.md/Corresponding_material_and_biconditional.md +++ b/Logic/Laws_and_theorems.md/Corresponding_material_and_biconditional.md @@ -23,12 +23,12 @@ $$ \{ P \leftrightarrow Q, P \lor Q, P \land Q \} $$ | F | T | F | T | | F | F | T | F | -| $P$ | $Q$ | $(P \leftrightarrow Q) \land (P \lor Q)) \leftrightarrow (P \lor Q)$ | -| --- | --- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | -| T | T | T | -| T | F | T | -| F | T | T | -| F | F | T | +| $P$ | $Q$ | $(P \leftrightarrow Q) \land (P \lor Q)) \leftrightarrow (P \land Q)$ | +| --- | --- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | +| T | T | T | +| T | F | T | +| F | T | T | +| F | F | T | We see above that the main connective, the material conditional returns true for every truth-functional assignment. In other words it is logically true. Consequently the argument is valid