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I need a quick check on my homework to see if any questions are wrong. We just finished learning quantifiers (for all, for every) yesterday and the assignment is due today at 4pm MST. If it is wrong, please point me in the right direction or the answer/why.

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My answers:

(a) Ch → Ce

(b) L(e,a) ∨ ¬ L(a,e)

(c) [(L(m,a) ∧ Ca) → L(m,...) NOT DONE

(d) ∀x(Cx → L(x,m))

(e) ∀x(Cx → L(m,x) ∧ ∃x(¬Cx → L(a,x))

(f) ∀(Cx → ¬Rx) ∧ &all;y(Ry → ¬Cy)

(g) ∃x[(Cx ∧ Ry) ∧ L(x,y)]

(h) ∀x∃y[((Rx ∧ Cy) → L(x,y)) ∧ ¬L(y,a)]

(i) ∃x∀yL(x,y) → ∀y∃xL(y,x)

(j) (L(m,a) ∧ Ce) → [Rm →∃x∃yL(x,y)]

(k) ∃x[(Cx ∧ L(x,m)) → L(e,m)]

(i) L(m,h) ↔ ∃x(Rx ∧ L(x,e))

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(c) Requires an existential quantifier on the part that is not done.

(d) You have the implication the wrong way round. You have written "all Celts like Marcus". "Only Celts like Marcus" means that if x likes Marcus, x is a Celt.

(e) Two errors here: the first implication is the wrong way round, as in (d), and the second implication should be a conjunction.

(g) This is missing a quantifier. The variable y needs to be universally quantified.

(h) Two errors here: in the first conjunct, the Cy should be on the right of the implication, not the left, otherwise the implication is trivially true in the event that there exists at least one non-Celt. The second conjunct has the wrong variable in it.

(i) Come on, you're not trying here: where are the predicates for Roman and Celt?

(j) Looks like a typo: you have 'a' instead of 'e'.

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  • For (g) would the order of the universal and existential quantifier matter ?
    – K.Wong
    Commented Nov 9, 2016 at 22:11
  • For (h) I now have.. (h) ∀x∃y[((Rx ∧ L(x,y)) → Cy) ∧ ¬L(x,a)] Is this correct?
    – K.Wong
    Commented Nov 9, 2016 at 22:14
  • I think for (g) you need two separate existential quantifiers as well as a universal. It means there exists at least one Celt who likes all Romans and at least one Celt who does not like all Romans. In (h) you have moved the L(x,y) term to the left of the implication. Only the Rx belongs on the left.
    – Bumble
    Commented Nov 9, 2016 at 22:46
  • I still don't understand how (g) would be sumbolized /:
    – K.Wong
    Commented Nov 9, 2016 at 22:52
  • Try: ∃x∃y∃z∀w [ Cx ∧ Rz ∧ ¬Lxz) ∧ Cy ∧ (Rw → Lyw) ]
    – Bumble
    Commented Nov 10, 2016 at 2:35

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