True or false, with no third option
When is a sentence a proposition?
A proposition is a sentence you can call true or false.
↳ Ask whether the sentence can be true or false. If it cannot, it is not a proposition.
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When is a sentence a proposition?
A proposition is a sentence you can call true or false.
↳ Ask whether the sentence can be true or false. If it cannot, it is not a proposition.
Two ways to write the same thing
The part after 'if' is what you are given. The part after 'then' is what follows.
↳ Learn to spot which half is X and which is Y before doing anything else.
What the converse actually is
The converse of 'if P then Q' is 'if Q then P'.
↳ Swap only the if-part with the then-part.
Where does an argument start?
To prove ‘if X then Y' you must begin at X and finish at Y.
What is a chain?
Most arguments go X to A, A to B, B to Y.
Can you read it backwards?
‘B leads to Y' says nothing about Y leading back to B.
A proposition is a sentence you can call true or false. Swapping the two halves of an 'if X then Y' proposition gives its converse, 'if Y then X' — a different statement, whose truth has to be settled separately. A singl…
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An argument has a direction: it proves ‘if X then Y' only when it begins at X and ends at Y. The divisor-pairing argument shows how easily that is missed — it settles one direction and looks like it settles both. When bo…
~40 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
The theorem runs from a right angle to $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$; its converse runs back the other way and has to be earned, by constructing a right triangle on the same two lengths and matching it with SSS. Because both directi…
~40 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
174 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
A proposition is
Beginnera sentence you can call true or false
There is no third option between true and false.
Which of these is NOT a proposition?
BeginnerDraw the altitude from the third vertex
It is an instruction, so it cannot be true or false.
Is a false statement still a proposition?
BeginnerYes, being false is one of the two options
True or false — either qualifies.
In 'if $X$ then $Y$', the part after 'if' is
Beginnerwhat you are given
The 'then' part is what follows from it.
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