Phi 270 F10 test 4

Analyze the sentences below in as much detail as possible, providing a key to the non-logical vocabulary you use. Also restate your analyses using unrestricted quantifiers.

1.

No one was disappointed.

answer
2.

If any part was missing, the set wasn't assembled.

answer
3.

Only cartoons appealed to everyone.

answer

Synthesize an English sentence that has the following logical form; that is, devise a sentence that would have the following analysis:

4.

¬ (∀x: Jx ∧ ¬ Sx) ¬ Fx

F: [ _ was finished]; J: [ _ is a job]; S: [ _ is small]

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Use derivations to show that the following arguments are valid. You may use any rules.

5.
∀x Mx
∀x (Mx → Qx)
∀x Qx
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6.
∀x ∀y (Fx → Gy)
Fa → ∀x Gx
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Use a derivation to show that the following argument is not valid and present a counterexample that divides an open gap. (You may present the counterexample either by a diagram or by tables.)

7.
Rab
∀x Rxa
∀x Rxb
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Phi 270 F09 test 4 answers

1.

no one was disappointed.

no one is such that (he or she was disappointed)

(∀x: x is a person) ¬ x was disappointed

(∀x: Px) ¬ Dx
∀x (Px→ ¬ Dx)

D: [ _ was disappointed]; P: [ _ is a person]

2.

if any part was missing, the set wasn't assembled

every part is such that (if it was missing, the set wasn't assembled)

(∀x: x is a part) if x was missing, the set wasn't assembled

(∀x: Px) (x was missing → the set wasn't assembled)

(∀x: Px) (Mx → ¬ the set was assembled)

(∀x: Px) (Mx → ¬ As)
∀x (Px → (Mx → ¬ As))

A: [ _ was assembled]; M: [ _ was missing]; P: [ _ is a part]; s: the set

3.

only cartoons appealed to everyone

only cartoons were such that (they appealed to everyone)

(∀x: ¬ x is a cartoon) ¬ x appealed to everyone

(∀x: ¬ Cx) ¬ everyone is such that (x appealed to him or her)

(∀x: ¬ Cx) ¬ (∀y: y is a person) x appealed to y

(∀x: ¬ Cx) ¬ (∀y: Py) Axy
∀x (¬ Cx → ¬ ∀y (Py → Axy))

A: [ _ appealed to _ ]; C: [ _ is cartoon]; P: [ _ is a person]

4.

¬ (∀x: x is a job ∧ ¬ x is small) ¬ x was finished

¬ (∀x: x is a job ∧ x isn’t small) x was unfinished

¬ (∀x: x is a job that isn’t small) x was unfinished

¬ every job that isn’t small it such that (it was unfinished)

¬ every job that isn’t small was unfinished

not every job that isn’t small was unfinished
or: among jobs not only small ones were finished
or: not only small jobs were finished
or: it’s false that no jobs that are not small were finished

5.
│∀x Mxa:2
│∀x (Mx → Qx)a:3
├─
│ⓐ
2 UI││Ma(4)
3 UI││Ma → Qa4
4 MPP││Qa(5)
││●
│├─
5 QED││Qa1
├─
1 UG│∀x Qx
6.
│∀x ∀y (Fx → Gy)a:3
├─
││Fa(5)
│├─
││ⓑ
3 UI│││∀y (Fa → Gy)b:4
4 UI│││Fa → Gb5
5 MPP│││Gb(6)
│││●
││├─
6 QED│││Gb2
│├─
2 UG││∀x Gx1
├─
1 CP│Fa → ∀x Gx
7.
│Rab
│∀x Rxaa:2, b:3, c:4
├─
│ⓒ
2 UI││Raa
3 UI││Rba
4 UI││Rca
││
│││¬ Rcb
││├─
│││○¬ Rcb, Rca, Rba, Raa, Rab ⊭ ⊥
││├─
│││⊥5
│├─
5 IP││Rcb1
├─
1 UG│∀x Rxb

Counterexample presented by a diagram

Counterexample presented by tables

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1 T T F
2 T F F
3 T F F