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HYPOTHETICAL

PROPOSITIONS
CHAPTER 5
WHAT IS HYPOTHETICAL
PROPOSITIONS?

• A HYPOTHETICAL PROPOSITIONS
STATES A SOMETHING IS TRUE IF
SOMETHING ELSE IS TRUE.
WHAT IS HYPOTHETICAL PROPOSITIONS?

• IT DOES NOT DECLARE AN


UNCONDITIONAL AFFIRMATION OR
DENIAL, BUT EXPRESSES A RELATION
OF DEPENDENCE SUCH AS AN
OPPOSITION OR A LIKENESS BETWEEN
TWO CLAUSES.
EXAMPLE

• IF HE STUDIED,THEN HE RECEIVED
AN EXCELLENT GRADE.

• IF WE HAD NOT EATEN,THEN WE


WOULD BE HUNGRY
TYPES OF HYPOTHETICAL
PROPOSITIONS

• CONJUNCTION
• DISJUNCTION
• CONDITIONAL PROPOSITIONS
• BICONDITIONAL PROPOSITIONS
• DISAMBIGUATING AN AMBIGUOUS
FORMULA
CONJUNCTION

• IT IS A WORD THAT IS USED TO CONNECT


WORDS, PHRASES, AND CLAUSES.
• THERE ARE COMMON CONJUNCTIONS
THAT IS BEING USE SUCH AS AND,BUT,&
BECAUSE etc.
EXAMPLE OF CONJUNCTION

•ROSES ARE RED AND JASMINES


ARE WHITE.
DISJUNCTION
• IT IS A TYPE OF LOGICAL CONNECTIVE THAT
JOINS TWO OR MORE PROPOSITIONS INTO A
COMPOUND STATEMENT. THE DISJUNCTION OF
TWO PROPOSITIONS IS TRUE.

• THE SYMBOL USED TO REPRESENT


DISJUNCTION IS “V”, WHICH IS READ AS “OR”.
EXAMPLE OF DISJUNCTION

•EITHER ITS SUNNY TODAY, OR


ITS RAINING.
CONDITIONAL PROPOSITIONS

• IT IS A TYPE OF LOGICAL STATEMENT THAT


USES THE CONNECTIVE “IF-THEN” TO
DESCRIBE A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO
STATEMENTS.
• THE FIRST STATEMENT IS CALLED THE
ANTECEDENT, AND THE SECOND STATEMENT
IS CALLED THE CONSEQUENT.
EXAMPLE OF CONDITIONAL PROPOSITONS

• IF IT IS RAINING, THEN THE


GROUND IS WET.

• IF A MAN IS FARSIGHTED, THEN HE


NEEDS EYEGLASSES.
BICONDITIONAL PROPOSITIONS

• IT IS A TYPE OF COMPOUND LOGICAL STATEMENT THAT


COMBINES TWO CONDITIONAL STATEMENTS WITH THE
WORDS “IF AND ONLY IF”
• A BICONDITIONAL STATEMENTS ASSERTS THAT THE
TRUTH OF THE FIRST STATEMENT IS EQUIVALENT TO THE
TRUTH OF THE SECOND STATEMNET.
• THIS SYMBOL USED TO REPRESENT BICONDITIONAL IS “
“ WHICH IS READ “AS IF AND ONLY IF”.
EXAMPLE OF BICONDITIONAL PROPOSITIONS

• A TRIANGLE IS EQUILATERAL IF
AND ONLY IF ALL OF ITS SIDES ARE
EQUAL.
DISAMBIGUATING AN AMBIGUOUS
FORMULA

• TO DISAMBIGUATE AN AMBIGUOUS
FORMULA, YOU NEED TO CLARIFY THE
INTENDED MEANING BY PROVIDING
MORE INFORMATION OR CONTEXT.
EXAMPLE OF DISAMBIGUATING AN AMBIGUOUS
FORMULA

• THE CHICKEN IS READY TO EAT.


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