Definition:Derivative Truth Table/Historical Note

Historical Note on Derivative Truth Table

The separate categorization of the five fundamental truth tables for the five statement forms appears in 1946: Alfred Tarski: Introduction to Logic and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences, and may be idiosyncratic.

This treatment refers to all statement forms which are not one of these five as compound, but $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$ follows the conventional view that a compound statement is any statement which involves a logical connective.

Following Tarski's lead, a derivative truth table can therefore be defined as a truth table for a compound statement.

The distinction is not an important one, but such a treatment can be useful for beginners.

Sources

• 1946: Alfred Tarski: Introduction to Logic and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $\S \text{II}.13$: Symbolism of sentential calculus