Boolean Logic

Knowledge Organization 48 (2):177-191 (2021)
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Abstract

The article describes and explains Boolean logic (or Boolean algebra) in its two principal forms: that of truth-values and the Boolean connectives and, or, and not, and that of set membership and the set operations of intersection, union and complement. The main application areas of Boolean logic to know­ledge organization, namely post-coordinate indexing and search, are introduced and discussed. Some wider application areas are briefly mentioned, such as: propositional logic, the Shannon-style approach to electrical switching and logic gates, computer programming languages, probability theory, and database queries. An analysis is offered of shortcomings that Boolean logic has in terms of potential uses in know­ledge organization.

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