Tutorial 23 The Semantics of Relations: Alternative exercises.

You should now Launch Deriver and do the 1 exercise of Predicate Exercise 13 (Predex13).


Exercise to accompany Predicate Tutorial 13.

Show the Interpretation Panel

This requires some setting up. The Interpretation in Predex13 shows an Interpretation similar to this

and it certainly would be useful if your running Deriver also displayed this same Interpretation.

There are a few workarounds to achieve the desired end:

Exercise 1(of 1)

Which of the following formulas are true in the Interpretation? (You can check by selecting them and clicking True?)

a) Rab
b) Rab∧Rba
c) Raa
d) Raa∨Saa
e) (∃y)Ray
f) (∃y)Ryb
g) (∃y)Ryy
h) (∃y)Syy
i) (∀y)Syy
j) (∀x)(∃y)Rxy
k) (∀x)(Fx⊃(∃y)Rxy)