Come up with a series of the 3 items for each of the
following
sentences:
(a) Predicate
Logic symbolization of the original sentence
(b) result of
applying QN to (a), i.e., with different quantifier
(c) restatement of
(b) back into a plain English sentence
which should be different from the original English
sentence in its utterance, but still the same in its
meaning
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1. Anything that leads to violence
is wrong.
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2. Not every smile is genuine.
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3. Terrorists are neither rational
nor empathetic.
(hint: two
predicates as one unit are ascribed to the
subject)
NB: compare the
two different sentences in question 4 below
while doing the same tasks respectively as above
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4. (1) Humans are spiritual.
(2) Only humans
are spiritual.
NB: Of course,
these are not the same, as "only" makes the
predicate a consequent of the conditional
1. Something that is disturbing leads to violence is not only correct but normal as well.
2. Every smile is not only genuine , but its fake too.
3. Here the subject is terrorists. Two predicates are : Rational and Empathetic .
Terrorists , who are considered to be cold blooded people, do not come up with either of the qualities that is to be rational and empathetic .
4. There are two lines in sentence 4. In the first line , it is meant to be humans as spiritual living beings .
but in the second sentence , a predicate has been used , that is ' only'.
It is believed that only humans are considered to be spiritual human beings .
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