Statement Form/Examples/Arbitrary Example 5

Example of Statement Form

Either the murderer has left the country or somebody is harbouring him

has the statement form

$A \lor B$

where:

$A$ stands for The murderer has left the country

$B$ stands for Somebody is harbouring him.

Sources

• 1988: Alan G. Hamilton: Logic for Mathematicians (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $\S 1$: Informal statement calculus: $\S 1.1$: Statements and connectives: Exercises $1 \ \text {(e)}$