disjunctive/conjunctive form and Truths.

[Sticksz]

Just to start I am not 100% sure if this is the right thread but I could not find something for this type of math.
Secondly I have been stumped on this for days now and I only have one more attempt at this homework assignment and I would like to get these two correct but I can not for the life on me find this in the text book or online somewhere on how I do these two problems I have searched everywhere and cant figure out how to do these two.
lastly I linked each of the two problems in imgur so its a bit easier to read.

First question is:

https://imgur.com/8q6LNQI

For this one I tried using different properties in the text book but i have not gotten it right a single time so maybe i'm just not doing it right i'm not sure.

Second question is:

https://imgur.com/QiHaDji

For this one I tried making a truth table twice and maybe I did not construct it correctly either time?


Thank you for any help you can offer I feel defeated with these two problems and I cant seem to find help for this in my textbook or oneline.

 

[Deleted member 4993]

Just to start I am not 100% sure if this is the right thread but I could not find something for this type of math.
Secondly I have been stumped on this for days now and I only have one more attempt at this homework assignment and I would like to get these two correct but I can not for the life on me find this in the text book or online somewhere on how I do these two problems I have searched everywhere and cant figure out how to do these two.
lastly I linked each of the two problems in imgur so its a bit easier to read.

First question is:

https://imgur.com/8q6LNQI

For this one I tried using different properties in the text book but i have not gotten it right a single time so maybe i'm just not doing it right i'm not sure.

Second question is:

https://imgur.com/QiHaDji

For this one I tried making a truth table twice and maybe I did not construct it correctly either time?


Thank you for any help you can offer I feel defeated with these two problems and I cant seem to find help for this in my textbook or oneline.

Please show us what you have tried and exactly where you are stuck.

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[pka]

Just to start I am not 100% sure if this is the right thread but I could not find something for this type of math.
lastly I linked each of the two problems in imgur so its a bit easier to read. First question is:

https://imgur.com/8q6LNQI

For this one I tried using different properties in the text book but i have not gotten it right a single time so maybe i'm just not doing it right i'm not sure. Second question is:

https://imgur.com/QiHaDji

For this one I tried making a truth table twice and maybe I did not construct it correctly either time?

Even though I have taught logic courses thru graduate level symbolic logic, I find these questions to be confusing.
For the first I can tell you that [imath](p \Rightarrow \neg q) \equiv (\neg p \vee \neg q)[/imath]
I am less sure that I know what the writer of the second wants: [imath](p \wedge \neg p) \vee (q \vee F) \vee (T \wedge q) \vee (\neg q \wedge T)[/imath]
That is a disjunctive form the first factor of which, [imath]p\wedge\neg p[/imath], is always false so can be ignored.
But the second and third terms are true if [imath]q\equiv T[/imath], the last term is true if [imath]q\equiv F[/imath].
What does that tell us about a disjunction?

 

[Dr.Peterson]

First question is:

This is a direct application of a theorem (or maybe even a definition) you should have been given. Were you taught that [imath](p \Rightarrow q) \equiv (\neg p \vee q)[/imath]? If so, then you are just replacing [imath]q[/imath] with [imath]\neg q[/imath].

For this one I tried using different properties in the text book but i have not gotten it right a single time so maybe i'm just not doing it right i'm not sure.

Second question is:
For this one I tried making a truth table twice and maybe I did not construct it correctly either time?

Please show us the truth table you made, so we can see what is going wrong!

 

[JeffM]

If Tom is a cat, then Tom is not a dog.

That is always true because dogs and cats are different categories. Thus, any equivalent statement must always be true.

Tom is not a cat or Tom is a dog. Is that statement always true? No. Tom may be a human.

Tom is a cat and Tom is not a dog. Is that statement always true? No. Tom may be human.

Tom is not a cat and Tom is not a dog. Is that statement always true? No, it is false if Tom is a cat or if Tom is a dog.

Tom is a cat or Tom is a dog. Is that statement always true? No, Tom may be human.

Tom is not a cat or Tom is not a dog. Is that statement always true? Yes. There are three possibilities. If Tom is a cat, then it is true that Tom is not a dog. If Tom is a dog, then it is true that Tom is not a cat.If Tom is neither a cat nor a dog, then obviously the statement is true.

Undoubtedly, Dr. Peterson and pka are correct: truth tables and axioms and theorems let you deal with complex concatenations, but ultimately symbolic logic can always be confirmed by the right example.