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Truth-Value

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Truth-Value 

(in logic), the value that a proposition assumes, relative to the content reflected in it. In ordinary (classical) logic two truth-values are used—“true” and “false.” In many-valued logic propositions are examined that can assume a greater number of truth values; for example, in three-valued logic there are three truth-values, which may be interpreted as “true,” “false,” or “indeterminate.”



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Among the major issues addressed are the role of the concept of truth in Frege's system, the nature of the truth-values and their relationship to truth and falsity, the relationship between truth and judgment, and Frege's conception of truth bearers.
This would result in the impossibility of assigning a definite truth-value to any assertion pertaining to the extensional world, and would render the whole notion of "Truth" a mythical character.
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