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Single Idea 9724

[filed under theme 4. Formal Logic / B. Propositional Logic PL / 3. Truth Tables ]

Full Idea

Until the 1960s standard truth-table semantics were the only ones that there were.

Gist of Idea

Until the 1960s the only semantics was truth-tables

Source

Herbert B. Enderton (A Mathematical Introduction to Logic (2nd) [2001], 1.10.1)

Book Ref

Enderton,Herbert B.: 'A Mathematical Introduction to Logic' [Academic Press 2001], p.14


A Reaction

The 1960s presumably marked the advent of possible worlds.


The 30 ideas from 'A Mathematical Introduction to Logic (2nd)'

Validity is either semantic (what preserves truth), or proof-theoretic (following procedures) [Enderton]
A proof theory is 'sound' if its valid inferences entail semantic validity [Enderton]
A proof theory is 'complete' if semantically valid inferences entail proof-theoretic validity [Enderton]
Until the 1960s the only semantics was truth-tables [Enderton]
A truth assignment to the components of a wff 'satisfy' it if the wff is then True [Enderton]
A logical truth or tautology is a logical consequence of the empty set [Enderton]
Sentences with 'if' are only conditionals if they can read as A-implies-B [Enderton]
Expressions are 'decidable' if inclusion in them (or not) can be proved [Enderton]
Inference not from content, but from the fact that it was said, is 'conversational implicature' [Enderton]
For a reasonable language, the set of valid wff's can always be enumerated [Enderton]
Proof in finite subsets is sufficient for proof in an infinite set [Enderton]
'F(x)' is the unique value which F assumes for a value of x [Enderton]
'fld R' indicates the 'field' of all objects in the relation [Enderton]
'ran R' indicates the 'range' of objects being related to [Enderton]
'dom R' indicates the 'domain' of objects having a relation [Enderton]
We write F:A→B to indicate that A maps into B (the output of F on A is in B) [Enderton]
The 'powerset' of a set is all the subsets of a given set [Enderton]
Two sets are 'disjoint' iff their intersection is empty [Enderton]
A relation is 'symmetric' on a set if every ordered pair has the relation in both directions [Enderton]
A relation is 'transitive' if it can be carried over from two ordered pairs to a third [Enderton]
A 'relation' is a set of ordered pairs [Enderton]
A 'domain' of a relation is the set of members of ordered pairs in the relation [Enderton]
A function 'maps A into B' if the relating things are set A, and the things related to are all in B [Enderton]
A function 'maps A onto B' if the relating things are set A, and the things related to are set B [Enderton]
A relation is 'reflexive' on a set if every member bears the relation to itself [Enderton]
A 'function' is a relation in which each object is related to just one other object [Enderton]
A relation satisfies 'trichotomy' if all pairs are either relations, or contain identical objects [Enderton]
A set is 'dominated' by another if a one-to-one function maps the first set into a subset of the second [Enderton]
We 'partition' a set into distinct subsets, according to each relation on its objects [Enderton]
An 'equivalence relation' is a reflexive, symmetric and transitive binary relation [Enderton]