Name: ______________________________________ Date:_______________

Course and Section: ___________________________

In the following categorical propositions identify the quantifier, subject term, copula, and predicate
term.

1. Some airport screeners are officials who harass frail grandmothers.

2. No persons who live near airports are persons who appreciate the noise of jets.

3. All oil-based paints are products that contribute significantly to photochemical smog.

4. Some preachers who are intolerant of others’ beliefs are not television evangelists.

5. All trials in which a coerced confession is read to the jury are trials in which a guilty verdict can be
reversed.

6. Some artificial hearts are mechanisms that are prone to failure.

7. No sex education courses that are taught competently are programs that are currently eroding public
morals.

8. Some universities that emphasize research are not institutions that neglect undergraduate education.

Exercises 1 through 6 provide a statement, its truth value in parentheses, and an operation to be
performed on that statement. Supply the new statement and the truth value of the new statement.
Exercises 7 through 12 provide a statement, its truth value in parentheses, and a new statement.
Determine how the new statement was derived from the given statement and supply the truth value of
the new statement.

Given statement Operation New statement Truth value

1. No A are non-B. (T) conv. ____________________ _____

2. Some A are B. (T) contrap. ___________________ _____

3. All A are non-B. (F) obv. ___________________ _____

4. All non-A are B. (F) contrap. ____________________ _____

5. Some non-A are not B. (T) conv. ____________________ _____

6. Some non-A are non-B. (T) obv. ____________________ _____

7. No non-A are non-B. (F) ______ No B are A. _____

8. Some A are not non-B. (T) ______ Some A are B. _____

9. All A are non-B. (F) ______ All non-B are A. _____

10. No non-A are B. (F) ______ All non-A are non-B. _____
11. Some non-A are not B. (T) ______ Some non-B are not A. _____

12. Some A are non-B. (F) ______ Some non-B are A. _____

Perform the operations of conversion, obversion, and contraposition as indicated.

1. Convert the following propositions and state whether the converse is logically equivalent or not
logically equivalent to the given proposition.

a. All hurricanes are storms intensified by global warming.

b. No sex-change operations are completely successful procedures.

c. Some murals by Diego Rivera are works that celebrate the revolutionary spirit.

d. Some forms of carbon are not substances with a crystalline structure.

2. Obvert the following propositions and state whether the obverse is logically equivalent or not logically
equivalent to the given proposition.

a. All radically egalitarian societies are societies that do not preserve individual liberties.

b. No cult leaders are people who fail to brainwash their followers.

c. Some college football coaches are persons who do not slip money to their players.

d. Some budgetary cutbacks are not actions fair to the poor.

3. Contrapose the following propositions and state whether the contrapositive is logically equivalent or
not logically equivalent to the given proposition.

a. All physicians whose licenses have been revoked are physicians ineligible to practice.

b. No unpersecuted migrants are migrants granted asylum.

c. Some politicians who do not defend Social Security are politicians who do not want to increase taxes.

d. Some opponents of gay marriage are not opponents of civil unions.