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- From: ard@cs.bham.ac.uk (Antoni Diller)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Re: A only if B
- Message-ID: <Bw0r39.G2I@cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Oct 92 17:25:56 GMT
- References: <rkaivola.718902434@mits>
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- In article <rkaivola.718902434@mits> rkaivola@mits.mdata.fi (Risto Kaivola) writes:
- >
- > 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)
-
- I'd go for:
-
- (B --> A) & (-B --> -A)
-
-
- Antoni Diller
-