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A disjunction that has a contradiction as one of its disjuncts is always false.

A. True
B. False

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Final answer:

A disjunction that includes a contradiction is not always false; it depends on the other disjunct. If the other disjunct is true, then the disjunction is also true.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student's question asks if a disjunction that includes a contradiction as one of its disjuncts is always false. The answer is B. False. A disjunction is a logical statement that is true if at least one of its disjuncts is true. Since a contradiction is a statement that is always false, the truth value of the disjunction depends on the other disjunct. If the other disjunct is true, then the disjunction is true despite having a contradiction as one of its components. Therefore, a disjunction with a contradiction as one of its disjuncts is not always false.

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