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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| truth-value | |
| —n | |
| logic | |
| a. either of the values, true or false, that may be taken by a statement | |
| b. by analogy, any of the values that a semantic theory may accord to a statement | |
truth-value (tr th'vāl'y ) Pronunciation Key
The truth or falsity of a logical proposition. |
truth-value
in logic, truth (T or 1) or falsity (F or 0) of a given proposition or statement. Logical connectives, such as disjunction (symbolized , for "or") and negation (symbolized ~), can be thought of as truth-functions, because the truth-value of a compound proposition is a function of, or a quantity dependent upon, the truth-values of its component parts
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