Definition:Conjunction/Also known as

Conjunction: Also known as

The conjunction is also known as the logical product.

The conjuncts are thence known as the factors of the logical product.

Some sources refer to the conjunction merely as and.

Treatments which consider logical connectives as functions may refer to this operator as the conjunctive function.

Sources

• 1910: Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell: Principia Mathematica: Volume $\text { 1 }$ ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text{I}$: Preliminary Explanations of Ideas and Notations
• 1946: Alfred Tarski: Introduction to Logic and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $\S \text{II}.7$: Sentential Calculus
• 1959: A.H. Basson and D.J. O'Connor: Introduction to Symbolic Logic (3rd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $\S 2.3$: Basic Truth-Tables of the Propositional Calculus
• 1989: Ephraim J. Borowski and Jonathan M. Borwein: Dictionary of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): and
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): and
• 1999: András Hajnal and Peter Hamburger: Set Theory ... (previous) ... (next): $1$. Notation, Conventions
• 2000: Michael R.A. Huth and Mark D. Ryan: Logic in Computer Science: Modelling and reasoning about systems ... (previous) ... (next): $\S 1.1$: Declarative sentences
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): and
• 2010: Raymond M. Smullyan and Melvin Fitting: Set Theory and the Continuum Problem (revised ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $1$: General Background: $\S 6$ Significance of the results
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): and
• 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): and