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Disjunction: In disjunction two statement can be combined by the use of the connective to the truth table. The truth table technique is used to establish whether or not two logical statement are equivalent.
Let p = He is a pastor and q = He is a singer
The above statement can be written as either he is a pastor or he is a singer.
Hence, in logical symbols; the statement can be written as p or q, where or means v i.epvq.
NOTE: the statement Pvq is false when both p and q are the false otherwise pvq is true.
The truth table for the above statement is given or presented as:
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