Phi 270 F00 test 5
F00 test 5 questions
Analyze the following sentences in as much detail as possible, providing a key to the non-logical vocabulary (upper and lower case letters) appearing in your answer. Notice the additional instructions given for each of the first two. | |
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There is a yak that someone yoked. [Give this analysis also using an unrestricted quantifier.]
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Each explorer mapped a route. [This sentence is ambiguous. Analyze it in two nonequivalent ways, and describe a situation in which the sentence is true on one of your analyses and false on the other.]
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Exactly one reindeer was red nosed.
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Analyze the sentence below using each of the two ways of analyzing the definite description the fireplace. That is, analyze it using Russell’s analysis of definite descriptions as quantifier phrases and then analyze it again using the description operator. | |
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Santa gained entry through the fireplace.
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Use derivations to show that the following argument is valid. You may use any rules. |
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∃x ∀y (Fy → Rxy)
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∀x (Fx → ∃y Ryx)
That is: Something is relevant to all findings / Each finding has something relevant to it [Don’t hesitate to ignore this English reading if it doesn’t help you think about the argument.]
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Use a derivation to show that the following argument is not valid and describe a counterexample lurking in an open gap. |
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∃x ∃y (¬ y = x ∧ Rxy)
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∃x ¬ Rxx |
Complete the following to give a definition of inconsistency in terms of truth values and possible worlds: | |
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A set Γ is inconsistent if and only if …
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Complete the following truth table by calculating the truth value of the sentence on the given assignment. Show the value of each component by writing it under the main connective of that component. |
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Describe a structure (i.e., an assignment of extensions to the non-logical vocabulary) which makes the sentences below all true. (You may use either tables or a diagram.) | |
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a = c, fc = b, d = e, Fc, Fd, ¬ Fb, Rab, Rea, R(fa)b, ¬ Re(fc)
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F00 test 5 answers
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7. | A set Γ is inconsistent if and only if there is no possible world in which every member of Γ is true |
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(The diagram above provides a complete answer, and so do the tables to its left. The tables below show a way of arriving at these answers.) |
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