sentential calculus

American  

noun

1. the branch of symbolic logic dealing with the logical relationships between statements insofar as they can be analyzed into conjunctions, disjunctions, and negations of more elementary statements.

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sentential calculus British  

noun

1. logic the formal theory the intended interpretation of which concerns the logical relations between sentences treated only as a whole and without regard to their internal structure

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Etymology

Origin of sentential calculus

First recorded in 1935–40

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