English

Noun

sentence connective ‎(plural sentence connectives)

1. (logic) logical connective
   • 2001, Mark Sainsbury, chapter 2, in Logical Forms — An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, 2nd edition, Blackwell Publishing, ISBN 978-0-63121-679-7, §2, page 60:

     Standard ("classical") propositional logic deals with sentence connectives having a special property: they are truth functional. The terminology derives from the mathematical notion of a function, and one can use this to give a mathematically precise definition of truth functionality.