1. Chapter 1 The Logic of Compound Statements

2. Section 1.1 Logical Form and Logical Equivalence

3. Statements A statement is a sentence that is either true or false, but not both. Statements: – It is raining. – I am carrying an umbrella. Not statements – He has a driver’s license. – Are you there? – x + y > 0

4. Logical Operators Binary operators – Conjunction – “and”. – Disjunction – “or”. Unary operator – Negation – “not”. Other operators – XOR – “one or the other but not both”” – NAND – “not both” – NOR – “neither”

5. Logical Symbols Statements are represented by letters: p, q, r, etc.  means “and”.  means “or”.  means “not”.

6. Examples Basic statements – p = “It is raining.” – q = “I am carrying an umbrella.” Compound statements – p  q = “It is raining and I am carrying an umbrella.” – p  q = “It is raining or I am carrying an umbrella.” –  p = “It is not raining.”

7. Examples But compound statements – “it is not hot but it is sunny.” – but in this case is ^ “and” – p = “it is not hot” – q = “it is sunny” – expression: p ^ q – “it is not hot and it is not sunny”

8. Truth Table of an Expression Make a column for every variable. List every possible combination of truth values of the variables. Make one more column for the expression. Write the truth value of the expression for each combination of truth values of the variables.

9. Truth Table for “AND” pq p  q TTT TFF FTF FFF p  q is true if p is true and q is true. p  q is false if p is false or q is false.

10. Truth Table for “OR” p  q is true if p is true or q is true. p  q is false if p is false and q is false. pq p  q TTT TFT FTT FFF

11. Truth Table for “not”  p is true if p is false.  p is false if p is true. p pp TF FT

12. Example: Truth Table Truth table for the statement (  p)  (q  r ). pqr (  p)  (q  r ) TTTT TTFF TFTF TFFF FTTT FTFT FFTT FFFT

13. Logical Equivalence Two statements are logically equivalent if they have the same truth values for all combinations of truth values of their variables.

14. Example: Logical Equivalence (p  q)  (  p   q)  (p   q)  (  p  q) pq (p  q)  (  p   q)(p   q)  (  p  q) TTTT TFFF FTFF FFTT

15. DeMorgan’s Laws  (p  q)  (  p)  (  q)  (p  q)  (  p)  (  q) It is not true that “John is short and he is fat”, then it is true that “John is not short or John is not fat”. If it is not true that x  5 or x  10, then it is true that x > 5 and x < 10.

16. Tautologies and Contradictions A tautology is a statement that is logically equivalent to T. A contradiction is a statement that is logically equivalent to F. Some tautologies: –p  p–p  p – p   q  (  p  q) Some contradictions: –p  p–p  p – p  q  (  p   q)

17. Wrapup Quiz on Tuesday (Chapter 1) Homework due Thursday