2.5 Tutorial: Identifying Simple and Compound Statements

Recall from the chapter that a simple statement has no other statements as components or parts, while a compound has one or more statements as interior components. The five most important connectives are the truth functional logical connectives: ‘not’; ‘and’; ‘or’; ‘if’; and ‘if and only if.’

For each of the statements below, identify it as simple or compound. If it is compound, identify the overall form and the simplest components.