Reduced Sets of Connectives
A set of logical connectives is called complete if every propositional formula is tautologically equivalent to a formula with just the connectives in that set. There are many complete sets of connectives, including, and . There are two binary connectives that are complete on their own, corresponding to NAND and NOR, respectively. Some pairs are not complete, for example .
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