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Examine whether the following statement pattern is a tautology or a contradiction or a contingency.

(p ↔ q) ∧ (p → ∼ q)

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p q ∼ q p ↔ q p → ∼ q (p ↔ q) ∧ (p → ∼ q)
T T F T F F
T F T F T F
F T F F T F
F F T T T T

The entries in the last column of the above truth table are neither all T nor all F.
∴ (p ↔ q) ∧ (p → ∼ q) is a contingency.

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