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Phi 270 F00 test 3

F00 test 3 questions

Analyze the sentences below in as much detail as possible using connectives; that is, you should not identify components that are individual terms (or predicates or functors). Present the result in both symbolic and English notation. Be sure that the unanalyzed components of your answer are complete and independent sentences; also try to respect any grouping in the English.
1.	`If it rains, you will get wet if you’re outside` answer
2.	`Al missed breakfast only if he overslept` answer

Use derivations to check whether each of the entailments below holds. You may use detachment and attachment rules. If an entailment fails, confirm a counterexample that lurks in an open gap.
3.	A → (B → C) ⊨ (A → ¬ C) → (A → ¬ B) answer
4.	A → B ⊨ ¬ A ∧ B answer
Analyze the sentence below in as much detail as possible. In this case you should identify components that are individual terms, predicates, or functors. Be sure that the unanalyzed components of your answer are independent (in particular, that none contains a pronoun whose antecedent is in another).
5.	`Unless Al is the file’s owner, the system didn’t let him open it` answer

Expand the following sentence in all possible ways on each of the terms appearing in it (i.e., you need not use vacuous abstraction).
6.	Tabc answer
Use a derivation to show that the entailment below holds. You may use detachment and attachment rules.
7.	A → Ra(fb), Rb(fa) → Ga ⊨ A → (¬ Gb → ¬ a = b) answer

F00 test 3 answers

1.	`it will rain` → `you will get wet if you’re outside` `it will rain` → (`you will get wet` ← `you will be outside`) R → (W ← O) [or: R → (O → W)] `if` R `then` `if` O `then` W O: `you will be outside`; R: `it will rain`; W: `you will get wet`

2.	¬ `Al missed breakfast` ← ¬ `Al overslept` ¬ M ← ¬ O [or: ¬ O → ¬ M)] `if not` O `then` `not` M M: `Al missed breakfast`; O:`Al overslept`

A	B	A	→	B	/	¬	A	∧	B
T	T		Ⓣ			F		Ⓕ
F	F		Ⓣ			T		Ⓕ

The counterexample in the first row lurks in the first gap and the one in the second row lurks in the second gap.

¬ Al is the file’s owner → the system didn’t let Al open the file

¬ Al is the file’s owner → ¬ the system let Al open the file

¬ Al = the file’s owner → ¬ [ _ let _ open _ ] the system Al the file

¬ a = [ _’s owner] the file → ¬ Lsaf

¬ a = of → ¬ Lsaf

L: [ _ let _ open _ ]; a: Al; f: the file; o: [ _’s owner]; s: the system

6.	[Txbc]_xa [Taxc]_xb [Tabx]_xc

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