Polytechnic University of the Philippines

College of Arts & Letters

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY & THE HUMANITIES
Sta. Mesa, Manila
(Prepared by: DARIUS ZALAVARRIA GALORPO)

 For ABPhilo students just answer numbers from 3 to 22 only

 For BSME, BSCE students just answer numbers from 1 to 20 only

TRUE OR FALSE: Write 1 if your answer is true and 0 if your answer is false. (Every mistake is
equivalent to minus . 25)

_____ 1. The antecedent of the false conditional statement is always true.

_____ 2. The second disjunct of the true disjunctive statement is sometimes true.
______3. The truth function of a proposition guarantees the truth condition of propositional
connectives.
_____ 4. It is possible for a proposition to have a “Sense” even without “Truth Value” according to
Frege.
_____ 5. The 1st-Order Logic denies Traditional Logic.
_____ 6. Arguments whose conclusion is a tautology is sometimes valid.
_____ 7. The “Sense” of the sentence is the sentence’s “Reference” according to Frege.
_____ 8. The linguistic expression of the disjunctive statement ‘either, or’ plays only one role; i,e.
inclusive disjunction.
_____ 9. All valid arguments are sound.
______11. Contingency is a paradigm of the impossible.
______12. The statement or proposition that precedes the connecting word provided that is the
antecendent of the material conditional statement.
______ 13. Deductive logic is to probability while inductive is to validity.
______ 14. The word ‘Philippines’ in the sentence “Philippines is the only Christian country in the
East” is the name of the object and not the object itself.
_______15. Probabilities are sometimes invalid.
______ 16. A proposition and a declarative sentence claim exactly no dichotomy according to the
logicians and philosophers.
______ 17. There are 3 sets of rules (namely, the syntax, semantics & pragmatics) in the formal
language.
_____ _18. The tilde connective has a role of combining two or more statements.
______ 19. The terms, “Contradictory” and “Contrary” plays no difference logically.
______ 20. The most basic unit of analysis are the “terms” in the Stoic Logic.
______21. The universal is convertible in terms of existential but not vice-versa.
______22. The term “Existing” in the “Dinosaurs are existing” is the predicate of that proposition.