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fact
A fact is a true datum about one or more aspects of a circumstance, or an occurrence in the real world. Standard reference works are often used to check facts. Scientific facts are verified by careful, repeatable observation or measurement by experiments or other means. Generally speaking, facts are independent of belief, knowledge and opinion. Facts are different from inferences, theories, values, and objects.
tautology
logical formula which is true in every possible interpretation
truth value
value indicating the relation of a proposition to truth
validity
logical correctness of an argument's steps, regardless of the truth of the premises
logical truth
statement which is true regardless of the truth or falsity of its constituent parts
proof
sufficient evidence or a sufficient argument for the truth of a proposition
direct proof
Way of arriving to a mathematical proof
logical constant
term in logic
truth function
mathematical function
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
1951 philosophy article by Willard Van Orman Quine
formal proof
establishment of a theorem using inference from the axioms
satisfiability
In mathematical logic, a formula is satisfiable if it is true under some assignment of values to its variables. For example, the formula x+3=y is satisfiable because it is true when x=3 and y=6, while the formula x+1=x is not satisfiable over the integers. The dual concept to satisfiability is validity; a formula is valid if every assignment of values to its variables makes the formula true. For example, x+3=3+x is valid over the integers, but x+3=y is not.
vacuous truth
statement that can be expressed in the form of a conditional statement with a false antecedent
logical form
form for logical arguments, obtained by abstracting from the subject matter of its content terms
substitution
concept in logic; syntactic transformation on formal expressions
truth condition
Condition required for a semantic statement to be true
formation rule
rule for describing which strings of symbols formed from the alphabet of a formal language are syntactically valid within the language