Mathematics in the Modern World

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The science of reasoning

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Logic

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The drawing of interferences or conclusions from known or assumed facts

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Reasoning

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Refers to the process of making generalized decision after observing and/or witnessing, repeated specific instances of something.

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Inductive

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Specific to General

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Inductive

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Refers to the process of taking information gathered from general observations and making specific decisions based on that information.

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Deductive

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General to Specific

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Deductive

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A set of propositions arranged in a such way that one proposition is supposed to follow from another set of propositions.

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Argument

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Is the content expressed by a sentence that is capable of being true or false.

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Proposition

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Is the statement that is said to follow from a set of statements.

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Conclusion

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Are statements that are said to support the conclusion.

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Premises

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Argument Indicators

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• Therefore
• Since
• Due to the fact

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The part of mathematics concerned with the study of formal language, formal reasoning, the nature of mathematical proof etc…..

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Mathematical Logic

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gives the language and the rules upon which correct reasoning is based.

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Logic

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is an assertion which contains atleast one propositional variable

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Propositional Form

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A systemic way of presenting propositional forms.

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Truth Table

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Represented by a lowercase or capital letter, denotes arbitrary proposition with an unspecified truth table.

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Propositional Variable