CST 329 - Module 7 & 8

 Week 7 & 8,

The last two weeks and their modules take it up a notch with the use of first order logic. We look more closely at how to make more advanced first order logical statements using a combination of universal/existential quantifiers, and the different types of logical statements, such as conditional, “and”, “or” etc. For instance, how can we translate a complicated english statement into first order logic, given some domain, premises, and variables. How can we translate sentences with limitations, such as “There are at most two apples.”. This example can be done by saying “If you pick out an apple, and an apple, and an apple, then you will have picked out (at least) one of these apples more than once.” Which looks something like “AxAyAz[((Ax ^ Ay)) ^ Az) -> ((x = y v x = z) v y = z). So a seemingly simple statement looks very different from what you would expect in first order logic.

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