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Why is the classification atomic vs non-atomic useful? #2

Open vcvpaiva opened 6 years ago

vcvpaiva commented 6 years ago

Well, if a pair has two atomic sentences, any of the three possibilities can happen: the pair is either an entailment, or a contradiction or a neutral pair.

If the pair has two non-atomic sentences, we're in trouble, can't say much.

If the pair has one atomic and one non-atomic sentence, then either the non-atomic entails the atomic or they are neutral. This is because the atomic cannot (usually?) entail the non-atomic one. and our definition of contradicitons says we cannot have a contradiction between an atomic and a non-atomic sentence.