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In Formal Symbolic Logic, is there any other way to symbolize an "if, then" statement besides material?

implication? Is there a way of eliminating the matierial implication from symbolic logic with no logical loss?

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  • mitten
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    There are logically equivalent forms of the material conditional using disjunction or negated conjunction;

    If P then Q

    Either not-P or Q

    Not both P and not-Q

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    Symbolized:

    P -> Q

    ~P v Q

    ~(P & ~Q)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes if you have an if then situation i would ask my self. if i dont know what to do then i would walk out but in this theroy you would have to submit a varible in to the equation lets say X so we have (if)X(then)= HOLY SH*T THERES A ERASER RIGHT THERE>>>>>>>>>>>

    but any way you would want to develope it into the mathatocepe formula of (Z)X(Y)=((A)(B)(C))-(D)

    and therefore your situation would be solved.

    Source(s): Phd. In Formal Symbolic Logic From harvard university,
  • baccus
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    ok, enable's unpack this and comprehend its context. that's Isaiah of Babylon (Isaiah 40-fifty 3). His historic prophetic undertaking replaced into to cajole the exiles to return. that's, the human beings of Judea (the section close to Jerusalem) have been hauled off to Babylon as slaves, however the arriving of the Persian king Cyrus (see Isaiah 40 5) has began a clean regime without slavery. So, the entire thrust of this component to Isaiah is to get the descendants (the seed) of those carried into exile to bypass residing house to Jerusalem. there is yet another comparable subject occurring: the ingathering of the diaspora. the human beings of Judea have been scattered worldwide on the time of the Babylonian captivity, and this passage is approximately getting them back mutually. a 0.33 subject, which fills maximum of the Hebrew Bible's prophetic literature, is the longing for the top of tribalism (the "international locations" are the tribes of the Levant in Isaiah's utilization) and the amassing of all peoples earlier the holy One. we are able to verify this on the concentration on "no different Gods;" the multiple tribes had their own deities. How can this be significant to us right this moment? How do we reinterpret this historic fabric to tutor us how we could stay faithfully? do we, like Isaiah's human beings, could desire to be prodded and begged to declare substantial existence as unfastened human beings? do we could desire to be booted out of our convenience zones? nicely, confident. Are we caught in tribalism and branch? do we want the prophet to remind us that the way of tribalism and fake gods isn't the terrific way? do we've something we are able to study from strangers ("their witnesses?") nicely, confident. Does the worldwide internet serve the reason of having us out of our convenience zones and our tribalism? Does it deliver the international locations mutually? Does it "practice the way of the Lord, make at as quickly as interior the desolate tract a highway for our God?" is this digital highway a highway to deliver us mutually? i think of so. even regardless of the undeniable fact that it is attainable to magnify this. Radio and tv are enormously lots the comparable deal. it variety of feels to me that God keeps throwing us strategies of bringing the international locations mutually, and we oftentimes misuse them. Grace and peace to you.

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