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01

Self - Supporting Introductory Logic


Lesson 7, pg. 61-63
Statements

BY : MR. RUDOLF.VW
Student Objectives
Part 1: Define Self- Part 2: Distinguish Part 3: Define and give
Supporting Statements. between the three examples of tautology
types of self-supporting and self-contradiction.
statements.

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There are two
kinds of
statements :
• Self-supporting
statements.
• Supported statements.

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A self-supporting statements is a
statement whose truth value can
be determined from the statement
itself.
In other words, it supports itself (or tears itself
down); you don't need to consider outside
information to decide whether it's true or not.

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There are three kinds of
self-supporting
statements :
Self-reports, is something someone reports
about themselves, about their own
thoughts or feeling. We usually trust the
person & assume that these self-reports
are true.

Example :
If somebody told you, "I believe that the
sky is orange," you would say that their
statement is true, even though the sky is
not orange, because it is true that they
believe it is (and they are crazy). 05
Similarly, an atheist could agree that
your statement "I believe in God" is
true.

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Look at this statement ;
"Jesus is the Son of God, or
He is not the Son of God."

This is a statement that can be seen to


be true or false by how the sentence is
put together.

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"Jesus is the Son of God, or
He is not the Son of God."

This statement is necessarily true. It


cannot be false, because it covers all
the possibilities.

A statement which is true by logical


structure is called a TAUTOLOGY.

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Statements that are true
or false by logical
structure.
This statement is necessarily true.
It cannot be false, because it
covers all the possibilities.

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Look at this statement ;
"Jesus is the Son of God, and
He is not the Son of God."

This is an example of Self-contradiction,


a statement that is false by logical
structure.

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Statements that are true
or false by definition.

Some statements are necessarily


true because they are really just
definitions.
Examples :
• "All triangles are three-sided
figures."
• "The earth rotates once in a 09

day."
The statements that contradict
the definitions of their terms
are false by definition.

Examples :
• "All triangles is an octagon."
• "The earth revolves around the
sun twice a year."

• "A dog is mammal."


• "A cat is a lizard." 09

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