Definition:Subject
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Definition
The subject of a simple statement in logic is the part of the statement specifying the object being talked about.
The subject of a simple statement is atomic in predicate logic.
The subject and predicate of a simple statement are referred to as its terms.
Sources
- 1973: Irving M. Copi: Symbolic Logic (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $4$: Propositional Functions and Quantifiers: $4.1$: Singular Propositions and General Propositions
- 1988: Alan G. Hamilton: Logic for Mathematicians (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $\S 1$: Informal statement calculus: $\S 1.1$: Statements and connectives
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): subject (in logic)