Due Thursday, 9/17/20. Â For this week’s writing assignment, take a look at the picture below called “Sentences.” Â Read every sentence in the picture. Â As you read, pay attention to your own stream of consciousness – what are the thoughts that pop into your head? Â For full credit, respond to all 4 of the following items.
- Record two observations about the sentences in the picture – what do you notice / what’s something you find interesting / what popped into your head / what stood out.
- Choose one of the sentences in the picture (do NOT choose the same sentence as anyone else). Type the sentence out “in quotes”, and then answer the following questions:
a. Is it a statement (as discussed in class)? Explain why or why not.
b. Is it true or false? Explain in everyday English why or why not. - Make up a sentence that you believe would fit into this picture.
- What connection (if any) does this assignment have to do with the work we are doing in class?
- Extra Credit. Choose one of your classmates’ sentences (item #3 above) (if someone else has already responded to the sentence, please choose another). Reply to their comment – explain why you think the sentence fits in the picture, tell us whether or not it is a statement, and whether or not it is true.
1.I find that some are sentences and some are not.the full sentence including the Some sentences describe the state is right, and some are just like flying in the sky. A complete sentence always has a subject and a verb, I also find Some sentences are intelligible, Some sentences are wrong, some are even ridiculous which make me smile like how to hug a sentence?
2. I choose ” this sentence ,though a terrible lier, is also typed in a nice red font.” .(a). it is a sentence, it have subject ” the sentence”, has a verb “is”，and is full stoped at the end.
(b)it is false. because it is obviously wrong for”red font” it is in blue, this point is wrong, ” is also” means ” the sentence is a terrible liar and typed in a nice red font.” . no matter it is liar or not liar , red font is wrong, so the whole sentence is wrong.
3. “this sentences is written in blue and in black .”
4. we could use the ” symbolic logic” that we learned in class to express this picture. We can judge whether it is a sentence or not, and then we can tell the statement is true or false. If there are multiple statements, we could describe the relationship of them, it is conjunction or disjunction, or negation, or conditional . for example, the sentence I picked out, there are two statements, ” a terrible liar” and ” in red font” , it is a conjunction, it is strictly performed in true. so if there is only one false, the whole sentence is false.
1) Many of the statements in the image are self-referential or paradoxical. The sentence that stands out most to me is “This sentence is an aharmanite.”, because I never heard of an aharmanite. I discovered that it is a contrived word used in the book, “The Riddle of Scheherzade” in posing a logic riddle.
2) a. “Ce n’est pas une phrase.” is a statement as defined in class, because the sentence makes a claim that is either true or false.
2) b. This statement is false, because it is written in the form of a sentence. So, the claim that “this is not a sentence” is self-contradictory and therefore false.
3) A black hole can form from a mass as little as 22 micrograms.
4) This assignment trains us to identify “statements” as defined under the discipline of Logic. For example, “Interjection!” is not a statement, but “This statement contains fifty-two characters.” is a statement.
1) What really stood out to be in this picture is how the way things are said can become very wrapped up in the meaning of what is being said and that in some cases it can become impossible to separate the two. I’m also interested in the fact that this image only achieves what it achieves because it is an image. If these sentences were displayed with type written standard formatting, the truth or falsehood of a lot of them would change.
2) “THIS SENTENCE ATTEMPT TO NOT REMIND YOU OF AGATHA CHRISTIE, YET ULTIMATELY FAILS.”
a. This sentence is a statement, because it puts forth an idea that can only be true or false, which is that the sentence reminds you of Agatha Christie.
b. The statement made by this sentence (it reminds you of Agatha Christie) is truthful, because in bringing up Agatha Christie the sentence reminds the reader of Agatha Christie. So the sentence does indeed fail at its goal of not reminding you of Agatha Christie.
3) “The last two words of this sentence are this sentence.”
4) This assignment relates to our attempts in this class to assign meaning to things (statements) by reducing their often confusing substance to a simple binary: true or false.
I think that the sentence “The last two words of this sentence are this sentence.” fits in the picture. It contains humor and is self reflect similar to other sentences in the picture. It is a statement because it has a subject and a verb. Finally, the sentence is true because the last two words are “this sentence”.
Observations: There were different forms of statements being presented such as declarative and imperative.Either a statement presented was false or true to its statement.
“This sentence is stretched” is a statement as discussed in mathematics because the sentence can either be indefinitely true or false. The sentence displayed font is stretched across the page but the actual statement is not so stretched out as one may believe. Based on the font size and spacing of the other sentences one can conclude that the sentence is stretched wider than the others.
“This sentence can only tell you one or two things.”
This assignment deals with the illogical and logical statements we will encounter in our work. It makes one think what pieces of information are crucial in order to discover other information.
My stream of consciousness led me directly to logic’s nature as it pertains to propositions. In that a proposition is a declarative sentence which declares a fact.
1. One sentence does not contain the word sentence, “This hamburger is delusional,” and there is a command word not a sentence in the picture, “Interjection!” I say this because, “Interjection” does not have a subject or predicate.
2. “This sentence has only one spellng error.”
a. Yes it is a statement because as discussed in class, statements are sentences that are either true or false.
b. This sentence is true because it because this sentence does contain one spelling error. (Re: splling) for this sentence to be false there would be no spelling errors which is not the case, therefore this sentence is true.
3. This sentence makes no sense.
4. We are now covering the mathematical topic Logic. In this this assignment the questions are designed to make us further understand of the meaning of statements/propositions by declaring whether the sentences are true or false. Hence the term declarative sentence.
“this sentence makes no sense.”
I love it. So simple yet fits in perfectly. Its statement that I believe is false but can make someone sit there and debate the truthfulness of it.
1)The first thing that pops out at me is the different combinations of upright, upside down and even sideways “sentences”. Next was the mix of sentences, some filled with lies, jokes and irony .
2)”This sentence has no sentience.” At first I read it wrong, I saw “this sentence has no sentence.which made no sense to me haha….. But then I turned my head to see my mistake.
Then the sentence made sense. The sentence itself is unable to feel , so the statement is true.
3)A sentence that I feel would fit in is ” If you choose me, then the other sentences were too hard.”
4) I feel this assignment is good to strengthen our ability to logically identify statements and determine which are true or false.
1) This picture is made of two colors: green and black. The background is a light green and the sentences are black and a forest green. The sentences are arranged in four directions forming squares. The french sentence is in reference to the French surrealist painting “The Treachery of Images.”
2) I chose the sentence: “This sentence is almost illigebly small.”
a. It is a sentence because it has a subject and a verb.
b. The statement in the sentence is true because the font makes it difficult to see. I had to stare closely at my computer screen to read it properly and it is small enough to be overlooked.
3) thIs sEntEncE hAs nO cApItAlIzEd cOnsOnAnts.
4) This assignment gives us an opportunity to review the definition of statement and have an open discussion about it .
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I was asked to pay attention to my stream of consciousness so I opened a wordpad to write as im reading the sentences.the stupid spongebob meme comes to mind with the one with no capitalized vowels, the sentence does exist before it is read, sentences have degrees of consciousness but very little ones (protopanpsychisim?), all hamburgers are delusional, that sentence lies, i don’t know what aharmanite means so ill have to look it up, does that sentence contain 52 characters? i can’t count it properly, i counted in segments of two, I wonder if anyone else counted this and how they sorted their count. This is everything that i found interesting, popped into my head/ stood out, and written down exactly as I thought it- without grammatical considerations, except for this last explaining bit.
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“this sentence serves no purpose”
a) this IS indeed a statement, because it is making a clear expression of something (its lack of purpose)
b) this statement is FALSE- because while I do believe in an objective truth, I believe it is something we are (mostly) working towards as a species. Truth is something we discover, through mathematics. The idea that this statement does or does not serve a purpose is to me preposterous because 1: it was written with an intent, even if the intent was a lack of one and 2) like art, its interpretation changes depending on the viewer- because we can ascribe purpose to things, even if the sentence had no intrinsic purpose, it would have it so long as one sentient being says it does, and I say it does, so it does!
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“this sentence does not end with a period”
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this assignment has a lot to do with the work we are doing in class because proofs is all about a priori thinking, figuring out axiomatic truths (which as godel taught us can never be complete and consistent), and what anything really says about anything at all. How do we argree upon what truth is, how do we connect reality with our subjective experiences, how do we create a language we can use to communicate universal ideas to one another- a framework to build knowledge upon.
1. When I first saw the picture I couldn’t distinguish much but when I looked more closely I saw more of the individual parts. The part that caught my eye first was “This sentence was remarkably perceptive” I normally don’t see the word perceptive as often in my daily life. the font is larger than 12 pt and in black
2. “This sentence does not exist until it is read” this is a statements defined by the class as a declarative statement that may or may not be true or false. This sentence doesn’t magically appear when you read it, the sentence has already been written. It doesn’t matter if anyone reads the sentence it still exists. This statement is therefore true.
3. This cat is fearful
4. This assignment helps us to ascertain what are statements in general and to think about the truth value of said statements.
1. When I first saw the picture I couldn’t distinguish much but when I looked more closely I saw more of the individual parts. The part that caught my eye first was “This sentence was remarkably perceptive” I normally don’t see the word perceptive as often in my daily life. the font is larger than 12 pt and in black
2. “This sentence does not exist until it is read” this is a statements defined by the class as a declarative statement that may or may not be true or false. This sentence doesn’t magically appear when you read it, the sentence has already been written. It doesn’t matter if anyone reads the sentence it still exists. This statement is therefore true.
3. This cat is fearful
4. This assignment helps us to ascertain what are statements in general and to think about the truth value of said statements.
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My observation on those sentences is the following. The font size for some sentences is mixed with capital and lowercase letter. Majority of those sentences are ending with a proper punctuation, which is a period.
I notice that there is at least one French sentence among all the English sentences. But it does not end with punctuation. What I found interested is that some sentences are hilarious; especially, the one that says “This sentence laugh at those who turn their heads upside-down to read it.”
Meanwhile, the question I asked myself is the following, what is the main idea of doing this? What exactly are they telling to us?
The sentence I choose is the French one “C’est pas une phrase” which means in English “this is not a sentence.” It is a statement because it declares something. But it is not true because it is a sentence that is not proper due to the fact that it does not end with punctuation.
As the meaning of the sentences is the sentence itself; so, I think if I choose “this sentence is short” it will fit in. Right now we are studying logic and statement is part of it. By definition, statement is a sentence that is either definitely true or definitely false. And this homework is about a bunch of sentence that we are analyzing; therefore, they are connected.