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Homework
7: Due Friday, November 1, 2002
For each of the
sentences below, construct a suitable lexicon, and then translate the sentence
into our extended symbolic language. Show as much logical form as you can.
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Leon wants a Republican to be
president. (This is syntactically ambiguous; give two translations.)
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Nobody who wanted George W.
Bush to be president understood that he is feeble-minded.
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Anybody who wants to
understand why Gore believed that he could win will, if she is sane, hope to
work to reëlect Bush.
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Only athletes who train will
win. (This is syntactically ambiguous. For each reading, give an English
sentences that expresses that reading with no ambiguity.)
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Somebody should bring a
Frisbee to the picnic.
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Somebody should bring the
Frisbee to the picnic.
   
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