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sentential calculus.

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Origin of propositional calculus

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby propositional calculus

proposal, propose, proposed, proposition, propositional attitude, propositional calculus, propositional function, propositus, propound, propoxur, propoxyphene

How to use propositional calculus in a sentence

Hongkongers aren't asking to secede from China, but Beijing's faulty calculus is only alienating the city.
Is Hong Kong Tiananmen 2.0?|Brendon Hong|September 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She jumped at the chance to watch RT, or jumped at the chance to skip calculus homework.
Up To a Point: Binge Watching Putin's Propaganda Network|P. J. O’Rourke|September 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Instead the real defining issue—class—does not fit so easily into the current political calculus.
Class Issues, Not Race, Will Likely Seal the Next Election|Joel Kotkin|September 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With other emerging allies the calculus is trickier and leaves less margin for error.
America Has an Unannounced ISIS Strategy, And It Involves Iran|Jacob Siegel|September 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Politics also played a role in the calculus of the Arab Muslims who supported ISIS.
On the Ground, Collaborators With ISIS Could Be Its Big Weakness|Christine van den Toorn|August 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Considerable hemorrhages from the bladder may occur in vesical calculus, tuberculosis, and newgrowths.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
You,” said I. “You drive a nail as if it were an abstruse problem in differential calculus.
The Idyl of Twin Fires|Walter Prichard Eaton
Besides these general theorems of formul, what remains in the algebraical calculus is the resolution of equations.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive|John Stuart Mill
Then wait till you see him cut for calculus, or perform for hernia.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844|Various
Then he dived into differential calculus and philosophical abstrusities.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12|Elbert Hubbard

British Dictionary definitions for propositional calculus

propositional calculus

noun

the system of symbolic logic concerned only with the relations between propositions as wholes, taking no account of their internal structureCompare predicate calculus

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