Lewis Carroll Logic Problems - PE35
The original problem has 6 premisses and 10 attributes
NumberPremiss
1Sleepy old misers are easily robbed;
2No Jews in this street are hunch-backed;
3All bald misers are old;
4Old people, who are easily robbed, are poor;
5No bald smoker can keep awake;
6No one can be a Jew, unless he is either hunch-backed or a miser.
The universe of discourse is persons. We will use the following dictionary:
Attribute symbolAttribute
abald
beasily robbed
chunch-backed
din this street
eJews
hmisers
kold
lrich
msleepy
nsmokers
So the symbolic form of the premisses is as follows:
Premiss. There are no persons that areSymbolic form of premiss
1. sleepy, old, misers, not easily robbed, mkhb'
2. Jews, in this street, hunch-backed, edc
3. not old, misers, bald, ahk'
4. old, easily robbed, rich, kbl
5. not sleepy, bald, smokers, anm'
6. not misers, Jews, not hunch-backed, ec'h'
The registry is:
EntityAppears inComplement appears in
a3 5
b4 1
c2 6
d2
e2 6
h1 3 6
k1 4 3
l4
m1 5
n5
Solution to be tested is edaln