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truth-value
[ trooth-val-yoo ]
noun
- the truth or falsehood of a proposition:
The truth-value of “2 + 2 = 5” is falsehood.
truth-value
noun
- logic
- either of the values, true or false, that may be taken by a statement
- by analogy, any of the values that a semantic theory may accord to a statement
truth-value
/ tro̅o̅th′văl′yo̅o̅ /
- The truth or falsity of a logical proposition.
Word History and Origins
Origin of truth-value1
Example Sentences
As a result, the "mainstream" viewpoint and conventional wisdom do not have the predictive power and truth-value they once did — if indeed they ever did.
On Morning Joe Wednesday, co-host Joe Scarborough responded to claims by Trump strategist Paul Manafort that there are secrets about the Clintons yet to be revealed by saying that regardless of the truth-value of Manafort’s threat, such things are going to make it very difficult for the Hillary Clinton campaign to control Bill in the general election.
In a clever twist, the authors interleaved two kinds of statements — “consistent” ones that had the same truth-value under a naive theory and a proper scientific theory, and “inconsistent” ones.
They transport reason and emotions, evidence suggestion, certainty contingency, truth-value imagination, rational understanding extra-rational meaning, and they call on us to better understand how all these impulses actively shape public response to the news.
For himself, this meant the denial of truth-value to any religion whatever, including Judaism.
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