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Intro

Tautology

  • A compound proposition that is always true, no matter what the truth values of the propositional variables that occur in it
    • p¬p

Contradiction

  • A compound proposition that is always false, no matter what the truth values of the propositional variables that occur in it
    • p¬p

Contingency

  • A compound proposition that is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.
  • Can have both true and false as its true values

Logical equivalences

  • The compound propositions p and q are called logically equivalent if p ↔ q is a tautology.
  • pq

Important logical equivalences

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Important logical equivalences (Conditional statement)

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Important logical equivalences (BiConditional statement)

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Satisfiable

  • There is an assignment of truth values to its variables that makes it true (named as solution)
  • It is Tautology or contingency
  • When it is unsatisfiable, then it is a contradiction
  • N-queens problem, Sudoku problem

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