Vocabulary
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Inductive Reasoning | A type of reasoning that reaches conclusions based on a pattern of specific examples or past events.
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Conjecture | A conclusion reached by using inductive reasoning
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Counterexample | An example showing that a statement is false.
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Conditional | A conditional is an if-then statment.
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Hypothesis | In an if-then statement (conditional) the hypothesis is the part that follows if.
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Conclusion | The conclusion is the part of an if-then statement (conditional) that follows then.
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Truth Value | The truth value of a statement is "true" or "false" according to whether the statement
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Negation | The negation of a statment has the opposite meaning of the original statement.
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Converse | The statement obtained by reversing the hypothesis and conclusion of a conditional.
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Inverse | The inverse of the consitional "if p, then q" is the conditional "if not p, then not q."
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Contrapositive | The contrapositive of the conditional "if p, then q" is the conditional "if not q, the not p." A conditional and its contrapositive always have the same truth value.
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Equivalent Statements | Statements with the same truth value.
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Biconditional | A biconditional statement is the combination of a conditional statement and its converse. A biconditional contains the words "if and only if."
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Deductive Reasoning | A process of reasoning logically from given facts to a conclusion.
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Law of Detachment | If the hypothesis of a true conditional is true, then the conclusion is true.
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Law of Syllogism | Allows you to state a conclusion from two true conditional statements when the conclusion of one statement is the hypothesis of the other statement.
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Reflexive Property | A = A
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Symmetric Property | If a = b then b = a
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Transitive Property | If a = b and b = c, then a = c
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Proof | A convincing argument that uses deductive reasoning.
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Two-column proof | Lists each statement on the left. The justifcation, or the reason for each statement, is on the right. Each statement must follow logically from the steps before it.
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Theorem | Is a conjecture that is proven.
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Paragraph proof | A proof written as a paragraph.
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