Introduction to Logic
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Sample Test - Evaluation


This exercise concerns the interpersonal relations of a small group or friends. There are just four members - Abby, Bess, Cody, and Dana; and there is just one type of binary relationship - likes. The following table below shows who likes whom. A check in a box of the table indicates that the girl named at the beginning of the row likes the girl named at the head of the column; the absence of a check means that she does not.

  Abby Bess Cody Dana
Abby    
Bess    
Cody    
Dana    

Figure 1 - One state of Sorority World

The sentences in the table below describe some relationships among the girls, with an indication of whether they are true or false in the world depicted in the first table. For each of the sentences, say whether it is true or false in the world pictured above.

Abby likes someone who likes her.
Abby likes everyone Bess likes.
Cody likes everyone who likes her.
Somebody likes everybody.
Everybody likes somebody.