sentence connective

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nounsentence connective (plural sentence connectives)

human sciencesSynonym of logical connective.
Standard ("classical") propositional logic deals with sentence connectives having a special property: they are truth functional. The terminology derives from the mathematical notion of a function, and one can use this to give a mathematically precise definition of truth functionality.
2001, Mark Sainsbury, chapter 2, in Logical Forms — An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, 2nd edition, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, §2, page 60
Synonyms: logical connective

nounSynonym of logical connective.

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