2(a) ‘Some women are unfaithful persons’. Is the preceding statement a stylistic variant of ‘some women are faithful persons? Explain your answer. No. Answer: “some women are not faithful persons” As far as the truth or falsity of the sentences being expressed goes‚ any one of the stylistic variants says the same thing. (b) Represent the two (2) statements mentioned in ‘a’ above on separate Venn diagrams. Answer: W F W UF
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Assignment 1: Logic Application Andy‚ Belle‚ Carol‚ and I are playing the game Guess Your Card. In the game‚ each person draws three cards without looking from a stack of cards containing contain multiple cards ranging in denomination from one to nine. Each person then places the cards on his or her forehead so that all of the other players can see the others’ cards‚ but cannot see their own. There is also a stack of questions that each person draws from in turn. These questions help the players
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Find (Cntl-F) Best Paper Index Table of Contents RECRUITMENT POLICY VS. RECRUITMENT PROCESS: ESPOUSED THEORY AND THEORY-IN-USE ANNA M. STAFSUDD Department of Business Administration Lund University P.O. Box 7080 SE-220 07 Lund Sweden INTRODUCTION This paper argues that recruitment policy does not influence the recruitment process to a large extent‚ as it represents an espoused theory‚ which is used to explain and idealize behavior after it has occurred. Instead‚ it is argued that recruitment
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THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG HKU SPACE Community College Associate Degree Programmes 2011-12 Course Document Course Title: Elements of Logic and Critical Thinking Course Code: C H C P 8 8 8 3 1 2 3 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 Aims and Objective 1. 2. 3. To introduce you to different formal logical systems. These logical systems can shed light on the structure of ordinary languages and can help distinguishing good reasoning from bad ones. Methods of evaluating reasoning within these systems will also be introduced
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Mary Rose Anne A. Deriquito TTH 8:30-10:00 BSA-2 Determine whether the fallacies committed by the following arguments are formal fallacies or informal fallacies. 1. If Rasputin was really mad‚ then he deceived Czar Nicholas II. Rasputin was not really mad. Therefore‚ he did not deceive Czar Nicholas II. Answer: Formal Fallacies Explanation: This is a hypothetical syllogism and is a deductive argument. If it will be interchange it will be valid. 2. Everything that runs has feet. The Columbia
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Would you classify mathematics‚ logic and music as languages? Justify your answer‚ considering the extent to which they resemble or differ from natural language and the role they play in the acquisition of knowledge. Language is best defined as something that is intended‚ creative and open-ended‚ and structured. Mathematics‚ logic‚ and music all fairly represent each of the requirements of language. Math‚ logic and music are all intended‚ creative‚ and open-ended. If spoken and written languages
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‘Logic cannot prove the existence of God.’ Discuss. (10) For Anselm‚ using logic that can be deducted about God‚ it is clear to see that God’s existence is necessary. In the second ontological argument from Anselm‚ God is the greatest being possible; it is greater to exist by necessity than by contingence‚ it is therefore‚ impossible for God to not exist. In this argument‚ God’s existence is an analytic statement‚ it is impossible to prove that God exists and although Anselm believes that it does
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Comparisons in Fuzzy Logic Galit W. Sassoon ([year]) uses fuzzy logic for complex sentences and comparisons‚ because they can "associate complex predicates (e.g. negated‚ conjunctive and disjunctive ones) with graded structures (say‚ a mapping of entities to numerical degrees)" (127). She states that‚ in comparisons‚ the difference between the truth values of two different entities must be > 0‚ as in x is more than y‚ or ≥ 0 in sentences like x as y (124-125). The most interesting part of her paper
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THE CATEGORICAL SYLLOGISM The categorical syllogism is the principal form of deductive interference. Its absolute manner of inferring when applied to certain premises is the kind most suited for imparting scientific and philosophical knowledge. We may describe the Categorical Syllogism as a form of mental discourse wherein two concepts are compared to a third ‘middle concept’‚ and from the agreement of both with the middle concept‚ the mind infers agreement of both concepts among themselves;
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. One good method to test quickly syllogisms is the Venn Diagram technique. This class assumes you are already familiar with diagramming categorical propositions. You might wish to review these now: Venn Diagrams. | | A. A syllogism is a two premiss argument having three terms‚ each of which is used twice in the argument. | | B. Each term ( major‚ minor‚ and middle terms) can be represented by a circle. | | C. Since a syllogism is valid if and only if the premisses entail the conclusion
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