Thinking Mathematically (6th Edition)

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Chapter 3 - Logic - 3.4 Truth Tables for the Conditional and the Biconditional - Exercise Set 3.4 - Page 160: 39

Answer

The given statement is a tautology.

Work Step by Step

A compound statement that is always true is called a tautology, and a compound statement that is always false is called a self-contradiction. The truth table for the symbolic statement, \[\left( p\to q \right)\to \left( \sim p\vee q \right)\] is shown below:
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