How is the philosophy conclusion symbol drawn?

Question

Looks like this: Conclusion

(Maybe called "therefore"?)

Also, what's a good guide for philosophy symbols in LaTeX?

Edit: Looked up http://osl.ugr.es/CTAN/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf for "conclusion", "therefore" and "philosophy", and it's not what I'm looking for.

Edit 2: No, in page 35 what appears is not what I'm looking for. This symbol is drawn before the "conclusion" sentence in Philosophy, so it would be:

premise1
premise2
\conclusion conclusion

Edit 3: According to http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/LaTeX:Symbols , \vdash is the symbol I need, But I'm not able to insert it into a sentence like this:

\vdash conclusion

It tells me:

Missing $ inserted.
Missing \endgroup inserted.
Lonely \item--perhaps a missing list enviroment.
\begin{document} ended by \end{enumerate}
Extra \endgroup

If I remove \vdash from the line it's inserted to, all these errors disappear and the document compiles correctly. Maybe I'm missing a package?

@Pyrobisqit \vdash can only be used in math mode, like so, for instance: $\vdash$ . — jub0bs, Mar 10 '13 at 12:52

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 10 '13 at 14:47

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It is good practice to wrap your wrap the \vdash into a command. That way you can change the command once in the preamble (say you suddenly need it bold, or larger, or whatever) and it will be changed everywhere in the document. E.g.,

\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\concl}{\ensuremath{\vdash}}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item [P1] first premise
\item [P2] second premise
\item [\concl] conclusion 
\end{itemize}
\end{document}

answered Mar 10 '13 at 14:47

jon

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Sounds much cleaner indeed, applied to my LaTeX master template! – dfhsfhdsfdhsdfgjsfgjdsdfgjsfgj Mar 10 '13 at 15:50

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 10 '13 at 13:00

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Solved! What I did is this:

\begin{itemize}
    \item [P1] Premise1
    \item [P2] Premise2
    \item [P3] Premise3
    \item [$\vdash$] Conclusion
\end{itemize}

answered Mar 10 '13 at 13:00

dfhsfhdsfdhsdfgjsfgjdsdfgjsfgj

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 10 '13 at 17:26

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For what it is worth, http://gregorywheeler.org/latex/phil-style2.html provides a few esoteric philosophy symbols, plus links to sites for logicians. There is also a now-defunct tex-blog (http://www.charlietanksley.net/philtex/) and Charles Tankley's guide to LaTeX for philosophers: http://www.charlietanksley.net/latex-guide.html

answered Mar 10 '13 at 17:26

djupp

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Hey! Those links are nothing short of awesome! I'm absolutely bookmarking this for future reference! Thanks a lot :) – dfhsfhdsfdhsdfgjsfgjdsdfgjsfgj Mar 10 '13 at 22:03

How is the philosophy conclusion symbol drawn?

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