Weekly Assessment 2

Instructions: Complete the following challenging problems to the best of your abilities. Partial credit is available for most problems, so try your best. Aim for 2-4 sentence explanations, where applicable, and when formulating arguments and sets, please follow conventions for standard form described in the readings and lecture.

Weekly Assessments close on Saturday at 5pm. Students have 2 hours to complete the assessment once they start it. I recommend reviewing Jordan's Puzzlers for this week before attempting the Weekly Assessment. 

Use "->" for material conditionals and "<->" for material biconditionals. 

Optional Written Portion
Instructions: Respond to the following prompt. You should dedicate, roughly, 200-250 words to each writing task in the prompt. Explain in your own words (no quotes) and provide examples to support your explanations. Please, no outside sources. Stick to the readings from the course. By completing this, you can earn up to 20 extra credit points on this weekly assessment. Please attach to your weekly assessment as a .pdf assignment comment. 

Task 1. Explain the syntax of SL. Be sure to explain (a) what it means to give a syntax for a language, in general, (b) the vocabulary of SL, and a brief summary of (c) the rules/definitions for sentences in SL. 

Task 2. Explain what it means to account for the semantics of a language. Do you think SL can handle the semantics of natural languages like English, Spanish or Tagalog? 

Task 3. Explain the Use/Mention distinction. Be sure to use examples. 

Due: Sunday, by 5pm. Submit as .pdf by attaching to your Weekly Assessment as a assignment comment attachment.