classical logic meaning: definition

classical logic

noun

Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences A kind of logic based on the principles that each proposition has a truth value of either "true" or "false", but not both, and that if a proposition were to be both true and false or neither true nor false then a result would be that all propositions would be both true and false.

The Lindenbaum-Tarski algebra of propositional classical logic is a Boolean algebra.

Antonyms: non-classical logic, intuitionistic logic, ternary logic
Hyponyms: Boolean logic