Formal logic concerns itself with the truth or falseness of statements, or propositions. "Barack Obama is the President of the United States" is a proposition that is true.

Catalog description: Introduction to deductive logic. Topics include: basic concepts of deductive logic; techniques of formal proof in propositional and predicate logic. 3 units. Prerequisites: No ...

In formal logic terms, according to the (fallacious) logical proposition and what is shown in the two references, A is dependent upon (B or not B), which logically resolves to just A ...

Two years later, I got Robot Odyssey, which promised to expand on Rocky’s Boots by extending the formal logic to actual programming. The game devastated me. My brain could not comprehend how to ...

FRANK PLUMPTON RAMSEY, recognised as a leader of Cambridge thought at the age of sixteen, died at the age of twenty-six. This volume contains his chief writings on logic and philosophy, about half ...

In a formal logic this is called a disjunctive syllogism: A or B; not if A, therefore B. (A syllogism is a conclusion derived from two distinct premises. On supporting science journalism.

There are inherent limits to logic that can’t be resolved, and they bedevil our minds too, says Noson Yanofsky in The Outer Limits of Reason “THIS sentence is false.” This sentence is also ...

Modern formal logic has its basis in mathematics — but that wasn’t always the case. The discovery and formalisation of logic is attributed to Aristotle (384-322 BC) in his collected works, the ...