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Boolean Theory, also known as logic, was designed as an aid to reasoning, and we will use it to reason about computation. The expressions of Boolean Theory are called boolean expressions. We divide boolean expressions into two classes; those in one class are called theorems, and those in the other are called antitheorems.

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Hehner, E.C.R. (1993). Basic Theories. In: A Practical Theory of Programming. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8596-5_1

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