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sentence connectives

sentence connectives is the plural of sentence connective.

Meaning of sentence connective

Noun

sentence connective (plural sentence connectives)

  1. Synonym of logical connective.
    • Standard ("classical") propositional logic deals with sentence connectives having a special property: they are truth functional. The terminology derives from the mathematical notion of a function, and one can use this to give a mathematically precise definition of truth functionality.2001, Mark Sainsbury, chapter 2, in Logical Forms — An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, 2nd edition, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, §2, page 60

Questions about sentence connectives

What is sentence connectives the plural of?
Sentence connectives is the plural of sentence connective.

Words near sentence connectives in the dictionary

  1. sentence
  2. sentence adverb
  3. sentence adverbs
  4. sentence case
  5. sentence connective
  6. sentence connectives
  7. sentence element
  8. sentence elements
  9. sentence fragment
  10. sentence fragments
  11. sentence mix

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