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The propositional connective & corresponds roughly to if . . .then.
TRUE
FALSE
Is "This ram is female" a contradiction?
NO
YES
Which is the superordinate terminthefollowinglist: man, stallion, male, boy, bull, boar
MALE
Which following statement is correct?
HUMAN BEING is a synonym of MAN
HUMAN BEING is a two-place predicate.
HUMAN BEING is a hyponym of ADULT
This example expresses the fact that man (in sense 1) is a synonym of human being.
FALSE
TRUE
The negative connective ~ can be used to account for relations of binary antonymy.
binary antonymy
hyponymy
synonymy
Is it true to say that if something is red, then it must be concrete (in the sense of non-abstract)?
NO
YES
The restriction of the predicate red to things satisfied by the predicate concrete is a ___________
selectional restriction
The hyponymy relation between predicates is often naturally expressed by the phrase ‘ . . . is a kind of . . . ’
TRUE
FALSE
The basic form of a logical ______________ is p & ~ p
CONTRADICTION
"Christopher is killing phonemes" is an example of__________________
ANOMALY
Which sentence is anomalous?
I just killed the desk
Hilda’s cow is a beautiful animal
A parrot is a kind of bird.
The connective -> expresses _____________
synonymy
paraphrase
entailment
Formulate a partial dictionary entry for red, expressing its relationship to concrete, using the meaning postulate notation.
RED: x RED -> y CONCRETE
RED: x RED -> ~ x CONCRETE
RED: x RED -> ~ y CONCRETE
RED: x RED -> x CONCRETE
Write meaning postulates, using the negative connective ~ to account for the antonymy between the following pair:TRUE, FALSE
x TRUE y -> x FALSE y
x TRUE y ~ x FALSE y
x TRUE y -> ~x FALSE y
Write meaning postulates to account for the hyponymy between the following pair of two-place predicates: RED, COLOUR
x RED y -> x COLOUR y
x RED y ~ x COLOUR y
x RED -> x COLOUR
