Howdy, Stranger!

It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!

Translate logical condition

JSJS Free Trial Member
edited August 2013 in Logical Reasoning 184 karma
An artwork cannot express an emotion that the artwork's creator is incapable of experiencing.

How to translate this sentence into logical condition?

If artwork's creator incapable of experiencing, then artwork cannot express an emotion.

Am I right?

Which word is the logical indicator in this sentence?

I thought cannot is the indicator means group 2. Am I right?

Many thanks!

Comments

  • CJ ShinCJ Shin Free Trial Member
    302 karma
    I believe you got it the other way around.
    Here, the necessary condition for "expressing an emotion" is to be "capable of experiencing."
    CANNOT X, not Y = X -> Y.
  • JSJS Free Trial Member
    184 karma
    It seems we speak the same?

    If artwork's creator incapable of experiencing, then artwork cannot express an emotion.

    equals to

    If "expressing an emotion" then "capable of experiencing."

    And also, how can you know cannot X, not Y means if not Y then cannot X(X-->Y)? I check JY's course and don't find it. Is this one(cannot) in the group 2 means necessary condition?
  • PonyboyPonyboy Member
    3 karma
    Cannot is another way of saying "not," which is a Group 4 (negate necessary) condition.

    You're each saying one of the contrapositives of the statement, so you're both correct. =)
  • CJ ShinCJ Shin Free Trial Member
    302 karma
    @JS oops yes you are correct. I misread your translation!
  • JSJS Free Trial Member
    184 karma
    @Ponyboy, @CJ Shin, JY's example of "cannot" (e.g. You cannot fight crime and run marathons. ) seems to be different from this one.

    But it seems still cannot means negate necessary here.
Sign In or Register to comment.