Tag
Logic
- What Is the Truth Value of P(x,y,z)?The predicate P(x,y,z) is true exactly when x+y is at most z, but the missing expression is needed to determine the requested truth value.
- How to Find the Million-Dollar Door with One QuestionWith two doors and one truthful guard and one liar, ask either guard which door the other would name, then choose the opposite door.
- Disprove the Claim That All Birds Can FlyDisprove “all birds can fly” with a counterexample: penguins are birds but cannot fly through the air. See the matching logic in predicate form.
- How Does a Chain of Implications Prove Conditions Equivalent?A chain proves several conditions equivalent when its implications connect every condition and eventually return to the starting one.
- How to Build a Logic Circuit in Conway’s Game of LifeConway’s Game of Life can compute with moving patterns such as gliders; design a Boolean circuit first, then implement and test its signal interactions.
- How Do Brackets Work in Boolean Algebra’s Distributive Laws?Learn how parentheses group Boolean expressions, when to distribute AND or OR, and how to simplify bracketed expressions without changing their value.
- How to Prove (∀x P(x) → A) → ∃x(P(x) → A)A classical proof uses cases on A and requires a nonempty domain; the statement is not generally valid in intuitionistic logic.
- How Much Did the Shop Lose in the Stolen-Money Riddle?In the classic stolen-money riddle, the shop loses $100 at selling price: $70 in goods and $30 in change, not $200.