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[Practice problem solution provided.]
Find two fundamentally different interpretations that satisfy the statement
There exists one person who is liked by two people.
One interpretation that satisfies this is a domain of three people Alice, Bob, Charlie,with the relation: . Bob is liked by two people, so it satisfies the statement.
Here's another interpretation that is the same except for renaming, and thus not fundamentally different: a domain of three people Alyssa, Bobby, Chuck,with the relation: . With the substitutions and , we see that the underlying structure is the same as before.
Here's an interpretation that is fundamentally different: a domain of three people Alice, Bob, Charlie,with the relation: . No matter how you rename, you don't get somebody liking themself,so you can see its underlying structure is truly different than the preceding interpretations.
English is fuzzy enough that it is unclear whether
oneand
twoare meant as exact counts. The above two examples each assumed they are.
There exists one person, who is liked by two people, we arguably change the meaning significantly.The now-independent first clause arguably means there is only one person existent in total, so the overall statement must be false!There's a quick lesson in the difference between English dependent and independent clauses.
For the four
Musketeerformulas from a previous exercise , find three fundamentally different interpretationsof which satisfy all the formulas on a domain of three people.
Depict each of these interpretations as a graph . Draw three circles ( nodes ) representing the three people, and an arrow ( edge ) from a person to each person they like.(You can glance at Rosen Section 9.1, Figure 8 for an example.)
Translate the following statements into first-order logic. The domain is the set of natural numbers, and the binary relation indicates whether or not the th number of the sequence is . For example, the sequence , isrepresented by the relation . You can also use the binary relations , , and , but no others.
You may assume that models a sequence. No index is occurs multiple times, thus excluding . Thus, is a function, as in a previous example representing an array as a function . Also, no higher index occurs without all lower-numbered indices being present, thus excluding .
The sequence is sorted in non-decreasing order,
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