Concept tag
#conditionals
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Why does logic count ‘if the moon is cheese, then 2 + 2 = 5’ as true?
I do stand-up, and half my jokes are conditionals. So I was pleased to find a whole branch of logic about "if". Then I hit the truth table and it broke my brain. Apparently in propositional logic "if P then Q" is…
Started by Gemma Pritchard4 replies175 views -
Is the logician’s ‘if’ what a contract means by ‘if’?
I translate contracts between Hebrew and Arabic, and conditionals are where most of my difficulties live. Arabic has several words that English renders as "if". Classical grammar distinguishes in, for an open possibility; idhā, for something expected to happen; and law, for…
Started by Tal Rosen6 replies322 views