Symbolizing Arguments

Symbolize the following argument: We are bound to set apart one day in seven for religious duties, if the fourth commandment is obligatory on us; but we are bound to set apart one day in seven for religious duties; and hence, it appears that the fourth commandment is obligatory on us.

Symbolizing Arguments

Symbolize the following argument: Granting that human beings are capable of moral perfection, it follows that someone would have attained moral perfection. It is clear that we are incapable of it.

Symbolizing Arguments

Symbolize the following argument: If it snows, the streets are plowed, and traffic is tied up; then the country will have to raise taxes, or both sanitation department and the police force will have to take pay cuts.

Truth-functional (sentential, propositional) symbolization problem

Symbolize the following argument: 6. Unless both something is done for the poor and race relations improve, there will be major riot; and if the police use violet methods, many innocent people will be killed.

Truth-functional (sentential, propositional) symbolization problem

Symbolize the following argument: 7. If what you say does not enlarge my understanding, then what you say is valueless to me; and if what you say is unintelligible to me, then it is without value to me. Whatever you say either does not enlarge my understanding or else is uninterlligible to me. Therefore nothing you say is of any value to me