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Consistency/inconsistency

Definition 1.1   A set S of sentences is called inconsistent only if the members of S can never be used to express consistent beliefs in a single context. (Blamey et al., 1984, 9)

Using Definition 1.1, give three examples of consistent sentence-pairs which could be used to express inconsistent beliefs.



Sandy Berkovski