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Occurrence Table for Material Implication, Chapter 21, Part II

Previous: Chapter 21, Part I, Special Use of Three Words

2  One-Way Implications

Any rule which can be stated in the form if a first situation A occurs, then a second situation B occurs, in brief, if A then B or A implies B, is called a one-way implication.

A one-way implication which is never disobeyed is said to hold and to be (always) true. For a one-way implication rule if A then B, we recall the following:

  1. The rule is obeyed when both situations occur.
  2. The rule is not disobeyed when the first situation A does not occur but the second B occurs.
  3. The rule is not disobeyed when the first situation A does not occur and also the second situation B does not occur.
  4. The rule is disobeyed if the first situation A occurs but the second situation B does not.
The last two items 3 and 4 can be summarized by saying that disobeying a one-way implication rule is impossible when the first situation A does not occur. When not disobeyed, the rule is said to be obeyed by default. The following table, an occurrence table for the one-way implication rule if A then B, summarizes what has been said.

 

row situation A situation B if A then B
1 occurs occurs obeyed
2 occurs occurs not disobeyed
3 occurs not occurs not
disobeyed
4 occurs not occurs not not
disobeyed

In each row, a possible combination of the occurrence or nonoccurrence of the situations A and B is shown in the middle two columns. In the last column, we put a note to say whether or not the if-then rule is obeyed, disobeyed, or not disobeyed.

Row 2 represents the situation in which A occurs but B does not. Observe that in this situation, the rule is disobeyed. In the situations represented by the other three rows, the rule is not disobeyed. A one-way implication rule if A then B is said

  1. to be always true,

  2. to always hold

when it is never disobeyed. The one-way implication if A then B is always true when the situation described in row 2 in the above table never occurs.

Remark. If situation A never occurs, the implication rule if A then B is never disobeyed amd it is said to be vacuously true.


Links to Chapter Sections: [Special Use of Three Words] [ 21. Material Implication Occurrence Table ] Occurence Table for IFF ] 21. Converses for 1-Way Implications ]

Next: Chapter 21, Part III, Occurrence Table for Two Way Implications.

 

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Volume 1A, Pattern Based Reason

 Chapters 1 to 24

FOREWORD
Three Remarks

1 Introduction
2 Communication
3. Elements of Reason
4 Implication Rules
5. Deception
6 Chains of Reason
7 Longer Chains
For & From Consistency
8. Language Change
9 Next Chapters
10 Responsibility
11 Accidental Patterns
12 Knowledge Islands
13 Euclidean Logic
14 Deductive & Empirical 
     Views of Mathematics

15 Objectivity
16 Origin of Rules
and Patterns
17 Objective Ways

18. Waking up
19. Symbols  & Logic
20. Pronouns or Symbols
21. Truth Tables I.
22. Truth Tables II
22. Biconditional
22. Contrapositive
23. IF-THEN table
24. Indirect Reason Again

To reason often means to persuade someone of the need for an idea or action. That someone could be yourself. So be careful.

1A Logic Postscripts
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+Proof by Absurdity alias proof by contradiction
+How the demand for consistency supports the law of the excluded middle
+Reality versus or with the aid of Imagination
+Links for reason, logic and crtical thinking
+Three Remarks
+History Lost or Missing

There is a difference between
knowing how to spend money,
and having money to spend.

There is likewise a difference
between mastering a skill
and having meeting a situation in which it applies.

 



 


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