PROPOSITIONAL CALCULUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does propositional calculus mean? 

• PROPOSITIONAL CALCULUS (noun)
  The noun PROPOSITIONAL CALCULUS has 1 sense:

1. a branch of symbolic logic dealing with propositions as units and with their combinations and the connectives that relate them

  Familiarity information: PROPOSITIONAL CALCULUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROPOSITIONAL CALCULUS (noun)

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Meaning:

A branch of symbolic logic dealing with propositions as units and with their combinations and the connectives that relate them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

propositional calculus; propositional logic

Hypernyms ("propositional calculus" is a kind of...):

formal logic; mathematical logic; symbolic logic (any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity)