truth-functional
adjEtymology From truth + function + -al.
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Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences Of or relating to a truth function; having a truth value that depends solely on the truth values of its components.
- Compound sentences are called truth‑functional if their truth-value is a function of the truth-values of their component sentences.1944, Rudolf Carnap, Introduction to Semantics, Harvard University Press, page 48:
- Antonyms
- non-truth-functional, truth-value gap
- Derived terms
- truth-functional logic
- Related terms
- truth function, truth table, logical connective