Thinking Cap: Why don't we talk of independence assertions in Propositional Logic..

To: Rao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>
Subject: Thinking Cap: Why don't we talk of independence assertions in Propositional Logic..
From: Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:20:44 -0700
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So we made a big deal about the importance of independence assertions in deciding the shape of the joint

distribution.

How come we didn't need to think about independence assertions while in propositional logic?

Rao