Week 6 - 2 of 3

I decided to due my second blog on Truth Tables. I am going to focus on "The Classical Abstraction". According to Epstein, the classical abstraction focuses on whether the claim is true or false, and how it is compounded from other claims. When looking at an "and" argument the claim is known as a conjunction. A conjunction is only true if both parts of it are true. For example: Bananas are yellow and oranges are orange. This is true because both parts are true. An example of it being false is: Tomatoes are red and pickles are pink. This is false because pickles are not pink, so this entire conjunction is false. Another type of classical abstraction is a negation. This is a claim that uses the word "not". This one is a bit confusing. A negation is true if its part is false; it is false if its part is true. For example: Jesse is not a girl. This is true if "Jesse is a girl" is false, and false if "Jesse is a girl" is true.