Rigorous Reasoning

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Truth Table

A systematic listing of every possible assignment of truth values to the atomic parts of a compound statement together with the resulting value of the whole.

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Truth tables give an exhaustive, decision-procedure test for validity, consistency, and equivalence in propositional logic.

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