Here is a handout reviewing the syntax/semantics of restricted quantifiers, which I also distributed in today’s class: The Syntax and Semantics of Restricted Quantifiers

It has come to my attention that many of you were not present for our Thursday 3/8 and Tuesday 3/20 lectures.  Since the material that we covered on those days (the semantics of Predicate Logic) will be covered on the midterm, and will also figure prominently in our subsequent discussions, I am re-posting the class …

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Due to an irresolvable time conflict, my office hours for Friday, March 9, will be at 12:30-2pm, instead of the normal 10:30am-noon.

Here’s a PDF handout summarizing today’s in-class discussion of semantic relations amongst sentences, and how they can be identified using propositional logic truth tables.  All of this information was on the boards today, but since I have this handout already from a previous class, I figured that I’d post it anyway, just in case your …

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Due to a change in my schedule, my regular Friday office hours will be postponed by one hour, to 11:30am-1pm.

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