An Introduction to Formal Logic

An Introduction to Formal Logic

Truth-Functional Logic (1x10)


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Take a step beyond Aristotle to evaluate sentences whose truth cannot be proved by his system. Learn about truth-functional logic, pioneered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by the German philosopher Gottlob Frege. This approach addresses the behavior of truth-functional connectives, such as "not," "and," "or," and "if" -and that is the basis of computer logic, the way computers "think."...

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