What Kinds of Rules Are in the Social Contract, According

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Essay

What kinds of rules are in the social contract, according to contractarians? Why are those the rules to which people would agree in the state of nature?

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Definitions:

Truth-functional Compound

A complex proposition in logic that is made up of simpler propositions and whose truth-value depends solely on the truth-values of these simpler propositions.

Quantifier

In logic, symbols that specify how many objects in the universe of discourse satisfy a given condition.

Atomic Open Sentence

An expression containing a variable that becomes either true or false when a value is substituted for the variable.

Compound

A substance formed from two or more elements chemically united in fixed proportions, or a complex entity composed of several parts.