Counter-intuitive formulas?

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Speakpigeon
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Counter-intuitive formulas?

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Are there propositional logic formulas, outside self-referential ones, whose validity or invalidity is often perceived as counter-intuitive?
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number systems are intuitively counters...

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Speakpigeon wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:17 am Are there propositional logic formulas, outside self-referential ones, whose validity or invalidity is often perceived as counter-intuitive?
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This would require a strict assertion where one logical formula is dependent upon another, yet neither are connected.
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Speakpigeon wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:17 am Are there propositional logic formulas, outside self-referential ones, whose validity or invalidity is often perceived as counter-intuitive?
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https://xkcd.com/179/
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