8.6.x. Exercise questions

Analyze each of the following first using Russell’s approach to definite descriptions and then again using the description operator. Use derivations to check each form of the argument for validity.

1.
The winner was an amateur
An amateur was a winner
2.
An amateur was a winner
There was at most one winner
The winner was an amateur

The exercise machine doesn’t incorporate rules for the description operator; but you can, of course, use for the logical forms derived from Russell’s analysis.

Glen Helman 28 Aug 2008