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Philosophy 220 and Contingency Review xF09B A sentence in natural language is logically true if and only if it cannot logically be false Tautology xF09B A sentence in natural language i. brPage 3br Validity for argument forms Truth tables for argument forms Homework Philosophy 205 Symbolic Logic Lecture 6 Truth tables and arguments Geo64256 Pynn Northern Illinois University Spring 2012 brPage 4br Validity for argument forms Truth ta The basic idea is to assume that the statement we want to prove is false and then show that this assumption leads to nonsense We are then led to conclude that we were wrong to assume the statement was false so the statement must be true As an examp Insights into literature and life. What is a contradiction?. When two things are said to coexist, but (in fact), they do not line up.. For example, when we say one thing and do another. . Examples of Contradictions. Dr. Cynthia Bailey Lee. Dr. . Shachar. Lovett. .  .                          . Peer Instruction in Discrete Mathematics by . Cynthia . Lee. is. licensed under a . Creative Commons Attribution-. Dr. Cynthia Bailey Lee. Dr. . Shachar. Lovett. .  .                          . Peer Instruction in Discrete Mathematics by . Cynthia . Lee. is. licensed under a . Creative Commons Attribution-. August 27, 2015. Tandy Warnow. Proofs. You want to prove that some statement A is true. . You can try to prove it directly, or you can prove it indirectly… we’ll show examples of each type of proof.. SPYROS . HOIDAS AND MARIA GALANI. FOCUS OF THE PAPER. The focus . of . the . paper . is . to describe the cognitive processes underlying the use of nominal tautologies of the . form: . . NOMINAL PHRASE . I. I. PROPOSISI. 2. Tautology and Contradiction. Definition. A tautology . is a statement . form that is always true.. A statement whose form is . a tautology is a tautological . statement. . A contradiction .   THE COLOR SQUARE . GAME. Objective:.  Figure out the arrangement of colored squares on a 3 × 3 grid or a 4 × 4 grid using as few clues as possible. .. Rules. :.  In a 3 × 3 Color Square Game, each of the nine squares are colored: three are red, three are green, and three are blue. However, all squares of the same color must be contiguous (linked along a side). The diagram below demonstrates what is meant by contiguous.. Dr. Yasir Ali. Two . statement forms . are called . logically equivalent . if, and only if, they have . identical truth . values for each possible substitution of statements for their statement variables. DEFINITION 1. A compound proposition that is always true, no matter what the truth values of the propositions that occur in it, is called . a tautology. .. A compound proposition that is always false is called. In . logic. , a . tautology. (from the . Greek. word τα. υτολογί. α) is a . formula. that is true in every possible . interpretation. .. Philosopher. . Ludwig Wittgenstein. first applied the term to redundancies of . In a direct proof you start with the hypothesis of a statement and make one deduction after another until you reach the conclusion.. Indirect proofs are more roundabout. One kind of indirect proof, . Prof. Shachar Lovett. Today’s Topics:. Knights and Knaves, and Proof by Contradiction. 2. 1. Knights and Knaves. 3. Knights and Knaves. Knights and Knaves scenarios are somewhat fanciful ways of formulating logic problems.