truth-value

[ trooth-val-yoo ]
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nounLogic.
  1. the truth or falsehood of a proposition: The truth-value of “2 + 2 = 5” is falsehood.

Origin of truth-value

1
First recorded in 1915–20

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How to use truth-value in a sentence

  • But we recognised in the principle of truth-value an important advance towards a theory of knowledge.

    The Problem of Truth | H. Wildon Carr

British Dictionary definitions for truth-value

truth-value

noun
  1. logic

    • either of the values, true or false, that may be taken by a statement

    • by analogy, any of the values that a semantic theory may accord to a statement

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Scientific definitions for truth-value

truth-value

[ trōōthvăl′yōō ]


  1. The truth or falsity of a logical proposition.

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