Logic / Unit 1 Logic 003 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Non-Statements
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The idea
Questions, commands, and exclamations are not statements — they have no truth value.
In practice
"Close the door." Not true, not false. Not a statement.
Where people slip
Rhetorical questions often smuggle in statements: "Who could believe that?" asserts "No one should believe that."
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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