View Single Post
  #124  
Old 08-01-2006, 11:03 AM
Kuan's Avatar
Kuan Kuan is online now
unband
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: At the Birkebeiner
Posts: 3,891
Rules of implication ane exceptions to the rule. It throws a lot of first time logic students for a loop. Consider the following truth table:

Code:
P  Q  P -> Q
1  1     1
1  0     0
0  1     1
0  0     1
1 is true, 0 is false. Notice that P -> Q (P implies Q) is false only once, that is when P is true and Q is false. How is P -> Q true when both P and Q are false?

You think you're good at logic? Explain that one.
__________________
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman
Reply With Quote