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Title: Discrete Mathematics
Description: Propositions

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Discrete Mathematics
Short Term 2016

Instructor: Dalos “Dale” D
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In the year 2010, more than10000 Filipinos went to
Canada
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MATHEMATICAL LOGIC


the following statements are NOT propositions:






What did you say?
This sentence is false
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 P: 10 is not divisible by 2
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P: Barrack Obama is the American president
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R: Corazon Aquino was an American president
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2*4 = 16 or a quart is larger than a liter
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Q: Lucio Tan is a billionaire
R: Steve Jobs was a billionaire
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1+2 = 3 implies that 1 < 0
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If Art Cruz gets 100 in the final exam, then Art
Curz will pass the course
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BICONDITIONAL



logically equivalent to P → Q  Q → P
truth table
P
1

Q
1

PQ
1

1
0
0

0
1
0

0
0
1

BICONDITIONAL


examples




A rectangle is a square if and only if its diagonals
are perpendicular
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OTHER CONCEPTS


Types of propositional forms






Tautology – a proposition that is true for every
possible permutation of truth values for the
component propositions
Contradiction – a proposition that is false for
every possible permutation of truth values for the
component propositions
Contingency – a proposition that is neither a
tautology nor a contradiction

SAMPLE TRUTH TABLES
(P  Q) → P
P

Q

PQ

(P  Q) → P

1

1

1

1

1

0

0

1

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

1

SAMPLE TRUTH TABLES
PP
P

P

PP

1

0

0

0

1

0

SAMPLE TRUTH TABLES
(P  Q) → P
P

Q

PQ

(P  Q )→ P

1

1

1

1

1

0

1

1

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

1

SAMPLE TRUTH TABLES
Show that (P  Q) (( P  Q)  ( P  Q)) is
a tautology
P

Q

P Q

PQ

 P  Q

(P  Q)  ( P  Q)

(P  Q) (( P  Q)  ( P  Q))

1

1

1

1

0

1

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

1

0

1

1

1

Precedence of the Logical Operators
Operator

Precedence/Priority Level



1



2



3



4



5

(P  Q) (( P  Q)  ( P  Q)) may
be presented as

PQPQ  PQ

In practice, parentheses are used to explicitly
show the precedence of operators
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Real World Practices
- EXCLUSIVE OR
Rice or Muffin comes with the meal
order
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(P  Q ) (P  Q)
b
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(P Q)  (Q  P)
d
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b
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d
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0>1 if and only if 2>1
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Equivalent Propositions
(Logical Equivalence)


When are two propositions equivalent?
Suppose P and Q are compound propositions, P
and Q are equivalent if the truth value of P is
equal to the truth value of Q for all of the
permutation of truth values to the component
propositions

Equivalent Propositions
(Logical Equivalence)


Suppose P is equivalent to Q
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The Rules of Replacement are equivalent
propositions(Logically equivalent propositions)



The Rules of Replacement are used to simplify a
proposition (Deriving a proposition equivalent to
a given proposition)

Rules of Replacement
1
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Commutativity
( P  Q )  ( Q  P ),
(PQ)(QP)
3
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De Morgan’s Laws
 ( P  Q )  P  Q,
 ( P  Q )  P  Q

Rules of Replacement
5
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Distributivity of  over 
P(QR) (PQ)(PR)
7
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Material Implication
( P  Q )  ( P  Q )
9
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Exportation
[(PQ)R][P(QR)]
11
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Contrapositive
( P  Q )  ( Q  P )

Rules of Replacement
13
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Absorption
P(PR)P
P(PR)P

OTHER CONCEPTS


Contrapositive





Inverse





 Q →  P contrapositive of P → Q
 Q →  P is logically equivalent to P → Q
 P →  Q is the inverse of P → Q
P → Q is not logically equivalent to its inverse

Converse



Q → P is the converse of P → Q
P  Q is not logically equivalent to its converse
Title: Discrete Mathematics
Description: Propositions