In chapter 6, I learned about compound claims. This is a claim that consists of more than one claim, but is viewed as one claim. Although it has two claims, it is considered as one because the two claims correspond to one another.
Example: Either you will win or I will win the grand prize.
This compound claim states that one or the other will happen. By saying this, the claim gives more of a likelihood of being true since there are two claims contained in one claim.
Another topic that I learned in chapter 6 was the contradictory of a claim. This is where a claim “has the opposite truth-value in all possible circumstances.”
Example:
Claim: Either you will or I will win the grand prize.
Contradictory: Neither you nor I will win the grand prize.
This contradictory of a claim is one most people state incorrectly because they are unaware of how to make the claim negative. In any case of an “either-or” claim, one must change the two terms to “neither-nor” in order to come up with the contradiction of the initial claim.
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