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Exercise 2.2

 

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Which of the following are truth functors? Where the expression is a truth-functor, what is its truth-table? Where it is not a truth-functor what is its partial truth-table? (A partial truth-table is a truth-table in which some rows have a "?" in them; in these cases, think of pairs of examples to show that sometimes the resulting sentence will be true in these cases and sometimes the resulting sentence will be false.)
  (i) j or y or both.
  (ii) It is true that j
  (iii) It is a necessary truth that j
  (iv) It could have been the case that j
  (v) j, but not because y
  (vi) It is true that j or it isn't
  (vii) j, but grass is not green
  (viii)  j, whether or not grass is green
  (ix) Everyone knows that it is true that j or it isn't
 

 

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