2250 Lecture Notes - English Alphabet, Sentence Clause Structure, Consistency
5 Feb 2013
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The study of modern formal deductive logic begins with whole sentences. We do not attempt to break down sentences into parts such as subjects and predicates, or identify the forms made up of parts of sentences. We take a simple or, as we will call it, atomic sentence to be a sentence that cannot be divided into parts that are themselves sentences. In contrast, a compound sentence is a sentence that has at least one part that is already a sentence (and that is not identical to that sentence itself). All whales are mammals, is a simple sentence. It cannot be divided into parts that are themselves sentences. Either the roof of university college is brown or the roof of university college is green is a compound sentence. It can be divided into two parts that are themselves sentences. In addition to two simple sentences, the compound sentence, either the roof of university.
