Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
In this paper we formalize the two-valued propositional calculus with implication and the logical constant 0 (denoting a false statement), as primitives. We can define the logical constant 1 (denoting a true statement), by
and we can define negation by NP = df. CP0.
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