Example
- If it is a bear, then it can swim.
- Thus, it is not a bear or it can swim.
where is the statement "it is a bear" and is the statement "it can swim".
If it was found that the bear could not swim, written symbolically as, then both sentences are false but otherwise they are both true.
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