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Interpretation of atomic formulae
Interpret the following formulae as true or false. If you have not defined these relations or properties in your model use the ones given in a previous exercise.
- father-of-someone(paul,Lisa)
Check your answers
father-of-someone(paul,lisa) = true iff
< I(paul), I(lisa) > ∈ I(father-of-someone) iff
< Paul, Lisa> ∈ {<Paul, Tom>,<Paul, Lisa>}.
Since this is the case, the formula is true.
- blonde(walter)
Check your answers
blonde(walter) = true iff
< I(walter) > ∈ I(blonde) iff
< Walter > ∈ {< Alice >,< Lisa >}.
Since this is not the case, the overall formula is false.
- enjoy-watching-football-together(alice,tom)
Check your answers
enjoy-watching-football-togehter(alice,tom) = true iff
< I(alice), I(tom) > ∈ I(enjoy-watching-football-together) iff
< Alice, Tom > ∈ {<Alice, Paul>,<Paul, Alice>,<Alice, Lisa>,<Lisa, Alice>,<Alice, Tom>,<Tom, Alice>,<Paul, Lisa>,<Lisa, Paul>,<Paul, Tom>,<Tom, Paul>,<Tom, Lisa>,<Lisa, Tom>}
Since this is the case, the formula is true.
Interpretation of formulae with logical connectives
Consider these two natural language sentences. While keeping in mind the scenario given in a previous exercise, create complex formulae with logical connectives and compute the interpretation, respectively.
a.) Alice is a dog and Lisa and Tom enjoy watching football together.
Check your answers
Here the interpretation in predicate logic notation:
[[dog (Alice) Ʌ enjoy-watching-football-together (Lisa,Tom)]] = false
because [[dog (Alice)]]= false
- because I(Alice)= <Alice> and <Alice> is NOT an element of I(dog)
- because I(Alice)= <Alice> and <Alice> is NOT an element of I(dog)
and [[enjoy-watching-soccer-together (Lisa,Tom)]] = true
- because I(Lisa)= <Lisa>, I(Tom)= <Tom> and <Lisa,Tom> is in the set of I(enjoy-watching-football-together).
- because I(Lisa)= <Lisa>, I(Tom)= <Tom> and <Lisa,Tom> is in the set of I(enjoy-watching-football-together).
Conjunction (Ʌ): Both atomic formulae have to be true in order for the complex formula to be true.
b.) Tom is not Paul's daughter or Tom is tall.
Check your answers
Sentence: Tom is not Paul's daughter or Tom is tall.
Here the interpretation in predicate logic notation:
[[¬daughter-of-someone (Tom,Paul) v tall(Tom)]] = true
because [[¬daughter-of-someone (Tom,Paul)]]= true
- because I(Tom)= <Tom>, I(Paul)= <Paul> and <Tom,Paul> is NOT in the set of I(daughter-of-someone)
- because I(Tom)= <Tom>, I(Paul)= <Paul> and <Tom,Paul> is NOT in the set of I(daughter-of-someone)
and [[tall(Tom)]] = false
- because I(Tom)= <Tom> and <Tom> is NOT an element of I(tall).
- because I(Tom)= <Tom> and <Tom> is NOT an element of I(tall).
Disjunction (v): At least one of the atomic formulae has to be true in order for the complex formula to be true.
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