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- From: rkaivola@mits.mdata.fi (Risto Kaivola)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: A only if B
- Message-ID: <rkaivola.718902434@mits>
- Date: 12 Oct 92 15:07:14 GMT
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- The following is no doubt a little trivial for the participants of this
- group, but I hope someone is willing to help me, nevertheless.
- Exactly how should one formalize the English notion of 'only if'
- in the language of the propositional calculus?
- That is, given the sentence
- "Tom will visit us only if we invite him.",
- is the correct formalization
-
- A = "Tom will visit us."
-
- B = "We invite him."
-
- A --> B
-
-
- Or, should this perhaps be B --> A (not in my opinion), or A <--> B
- (this last alternative is more likely to be correct than B --> A, in my
- opinion)?
-
- This isn't homework.
-
- --
- Risto Kaivola
- (Internet address: rkaivola@mits.mdata.fi)
-