Definition:Compound Statement

Definition
A compound statement is a statement which results from the application of one or more logical connectives to a collection of simple statements.

Also defined as
Some sources define a compound statement, in the context of symbolic logic, as a statement form other than:
 * logical not
 * conjunction
 * disjunction
 * conditional
 * biconditional.

Such is the approach of, who separately categorises the truth tables of those five statement forms as fundamental.

Hence any statement form which is not one of those fundamental five is (implicitly) defined as being compound.

Also known as
Some sources refer to a compound statement as a molecular sentence

Also see

 * Definition:Statement Form
 * Definition:Logical Formula; these represent compound statements in symbolic logic.


 * Definition:Tautology
 * Definition:Contradiction
 * Definition:Contingent Statement