In these lines, Sandra DeLozier Coleman (who participated in the math-poetry reading at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore in January) speaks as a professor reasoning in rhyme, explaining truth-value technicalities of the logical implication, "If p then q" (or, in notation, p -- > q ).
The Implications of Logic by Sandra DeLozier Coleman
That p --> q is true,
Doesn’t say very much about q.
For if p should be false,
Then there’s really no loss
In assuming that q could be, too.
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Saturday, April 5, 2014
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