I've been reading https://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/120/Chapter5.pdf and I had a question on inconsistent systems. It says about inconsistent systems "We may not be able to show, using logic alone, which premise is false, but we can establish that at least one of them is false." does that mean the negation of that system must be true? Here is my reasoning.
A) B is false
B) A is true
These two statements have an implied AND between them. So the system can be represented by the single boolean logic statement A AND B. The negation would be NOT A OR NOT B and would be the following I will call them nA and nB.
nA) nB is true
OR
nB) nA is false
If nA is true, then nB must be true. But nB cannot be true because it calls nA false, which makes nB false and in turn makes nA false because it asserted nB was true. so there is a contradiction in assuming nA is true therefore nA cannot be true.
If nB is true then nA is false. Looking at nA we see it calls nB true which cannot be correct. So nA cannot be True, therefor it is false. And that IS consistent with nB calling nA false. So nB being true does not create a contradiction in nB, thus we can call it true.
Since this is an OR statement nB being true is enough to call the system true. And since the negation is true, the original statement A AND B must be false.
So in conclusion when we take the system of statements
A) B is false
B) A is true
we can say the system has the value of FALSE not inconsistent. In addition since the negation of B was True, we can call B False. A is therefore True by the same reasoning.
Was I correct? Is there no such thing as inconsistent? If you have inconsistent statements they must have an implied "AND" between them. So their negation is an OR between them. Since they said "we can establish that at least one of them is false." then one of the statements in the negation must be true. And with OR statements one being true means the statement is true. And the negation of True is False. So the original system was False.
Maybe it's my definition of False and True that are wrong. Please let me know where I went wrong because even in the document I cited they have inconsistent as a solution. So I am most likely wrong, I just want to know why I'm wrong.
This is not for a class. This is me opining on the rules of logic and if there is actually only a binary True False value to everything and not a True, False, and Neither/inconsistent.