propositional calculus

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

   Synonymspropositional logic

   Broadersymbolic logic

Questions about propositional calculus

What does propositional calculus mean?

propositional calculus means "a branch of symbolic logic dealing with propositions as units and with their combinations and the connectives that relate them".

What is another word for propositional calculus?

Close synonyms include propositional logic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is propositional calculus a common word?

propositional calculus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.