Given your understanding of the readings and of the truth$-$functional connective called conjunction, please do the following for your initial post:

Explain why it is important to have a formal method of argument evaluation and why it is important to put English propositions into symbolic form.

Explain what a truth$-$table is and what the truth$-$table for conjunction represents about the conjuncts.

Explain why some conjuncts are not truth$-$functional.

Write down the individual conjuncts for the following conjunctions $($note: these are all truth$-$functional conjunctions$)$:

Both WSU and Oakland University have medical schools.

Virginia has a national park but so does Washington.

REI sells shoes; however, Costco sells coats.