Formal language (relevant)

Question 1

What does the development of formal language allow?

Answer 1

Symbolisation of arguments that show them to be valid in the virtue of their form

Question 2

What is the language

Answer 2

Truth-functional logic

Question 3

What is symbolisation?

Answer 3

Replacing component sentences with letters and connectives with symbols

Question 4

What does symbolisation show?

Answer 4

Clearly why arguments are valid

Question 5

What are uppercase letters used to represent?

Answer 5

Sentences

Question 6

¬

Answer 6

negation

Answer 7

conjunction

Question 8

v

Answer 8

disjunction

Question 9

→

Answer 9

Conditional

Question 10

↔

Answer 10

Biconditional

Question 11

Negation

Answer 11

‘It is not the case that…’

Question 12

Conjunction

Answer 12

‘Both…and…’

Question 13

Disjunction

Answer 13

‘Either…or…’

Question 14

Conditional

Answer 14

‘If…then…’

Question 15

Biconditional

Answer 15

‘…if and only if…’

Question 16

Why are brackets needed?

Answer 16

To make more complicated symbolisation easier ti understand

Question 17

By replacing component sentences with uppercase letters/sentence connectives with symbols…

Answer 17

We can clearly show why arguments are valid in their form