Simple and Compound

Proposition
 Propositions
Statements that express a
belief, opinion, or
knowledge; a declarative
sentence that is either true
or false but not both.
 Examples

• Eat Bulaga is a
noontime show
 Simple
Proposition
A proposition that express
a single thought.
 Examples

• The sky is blue.

• 2 is an even number
 Compound
Proposition
Statements that conveys two
or more ideas. Connecting
simple statements with words
and phrases such as (and, or,
if, … then, and if and only
if.)
 Compound Proposition
Statement
Examples
Connective Symbolic Form
Type of
Statement
p and q and Conjunction

p or q or Disjunction

If p, then q If… then Condition

p if and only if q If and only if Bicondition

not p not negation

 Converting Compound Statement into
symbols
Let p: You eat your supper tonight
q: You get desert
Symbolic Form Compound Statement
You eat your supper tonight and you get desert.
You eat your supper tonight or you get desert.
If you eat your supper tonight, then you get desert.
You eat your supper tonight if and only if you can get
desert.
You cannot eat your supper tonight
 Activity 1
Let p: Today is Friday. r: I am going to a movie.
q: It is raining. s: I am not going to the
basketball game
Symbolic Form Compound Statement
Thank you for
listening!