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Part A
Vocab words
- Objects
- Relations (Relatings)
- Functions (include domain)
- Reify (Reification)
Work up examples in the FirstOrderAgentSyntax (although you can branch out)
- Do a couple of complex sentences without quantifiers (and explain in English)
- Do a couple of sentences with universal quantifier and diagram them
- Do a couple of sentences with existential quantifier and diagram them
- Do a couple of sentences nesting the quantifiers and diagram them
What do we mean by diagramming? Like always, I don't want to constrain you by what I do. What I did in class was annotate the sentence. You need to
- tell us what the variables stand for;
- put parentheses in to make the precedence explicit;
- explain all the logic symbols;
- translate the sentence into English.
When I 'diagram' more complicated sentences, I tend to literally diagram them, to draw them, or parts of them, in some way. Experiment, see what works for you.