Critical Thinking

Question

Translate the following statements into symbolic form using the letters provided.

If Trump hid the phone transcript, then he should either be impeached or should resign. (H,I,R)

Answer 1

The first thing to do is to assign letters to the atomic statements.

H - T hid the phone transcript.

I - T should be impeached.

R - T should resign.

Then we should try to figure out the logical form of the complex statement. Here we have a conditional ("if-then") statement with a disjunction ("or" statement) in the conditional's consequent.

So the translation will look like this: H --> (I v R)