PHI 2100: Assignment 1

Due Sept. 3rd in class (no e-mail submissions)

 

Please WRITE LEGIBLY and justify with a brief explanation or the use of specific principles of  immediate inference in traditional logic the answer to each question.  Be sure to make a copy because these might not be returned.

 

1. Assume that it is FALSE that “all non-exempt funds are taxable.”

 

Based on the information given above, which statement(s) below may be true, but are not necessarily true?

 

  1. No taxable funds are non-exempt.

 

 

  1. Almost all exempt funds are non-taxable.

 

 

  1. All non-taxable funds are exempt.

 

 

  1. All non-exempt funds are charitable contributions.

 

 

  1. Some non-taxable funds are exempt.

 

 

  1. None of the above.

 

 

 

2. If no non-voters are citizens, which of the following statements must be true?  Which must be false?  Which, if any, are undetermined?

 

  1. All citizens are voters.

 

 

  1. Some voters are citizens.

 

 

  1. Some non-voters are non-citizens.

 

 

  1. Every non-voter is a non-citizen.

 

 

  1. All voters are citizens.