We are concerned here with Propositional and Predicate logic.
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A.1.2 Assertions and Propositions
First, we take some definitions:
Assertion: A statement (i.e., a declarative sentence).
Proposition: An assertion which is either true or false, but not both.
Truth value: Whether a proposition is true or not.
Note that whether a proposition is true is not necessarily known. For example, “A meteorite landed on
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