The reader may have observed several times in the preceding sections that there was a close connection between sets and statements, and between set operations and compounding operations. In this section we shall formalize these relationships. If we have a number of statements relative to a set of logical pos- sibilities, there is a natural way of assigning a set to each statement. First of all, we take the set of logical possibilities as our universal set. Then to each statement we assign the subset of logical possibilities of the universal set for which that statement is true. This idea is so important that we embody it in a.
