Select the Best Translation into Predicate Logic, Using the Following

question 158

Multiple Choice

select the best translation into predicate logic, using the following translation key:
h: Hume
l: Locke
Px: x is a philosopher
Rx: x is a rationalist
Ixy: x influenced y
Sxy: x is more skeptical than y
-If some rationalist is more skeptical than Locke, then no philosopher influenced Hume.

• A) (∃x)(Rx • Sxl) ⊃ (∀x)(Px ⊃ ∼Ixh)
• B) (∃x)[(Rx • Sxl) ⊃ (∀y)(Py ⊃ ~Iyh)]
• C) (∃x)[(Rx • Sxl) ⊃ ~(∃y)(Py ⊃ ~Iyh)]
• D) (∃x)(Rx • Sxl) ⊃ ~(∃x)(Px ⊃ ~Ixh)
• E) (∃x)[(Rx • Sxl) ⊃ (Px ⊃ ~Ixh)]

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Definitions:

Attentional Theory

The theory or set of theories that describe how individuals focus on specific stimuli and how this focus affects perception and cognitive processes.

Blocking Effect

A phenomenon in learning where the presence of an established condition stimulus prevents the acquisition of a new conditioned stimulus.

Pavlovian Conditioning

Also known as classical conditioning, a learning process in which an innate response to a potent stimulus becomes elicited by a previously neutral stimulus through association.

Conditioned

Refers to something that has been learned through association, often used in the context of conditioned responses or behaviors in psychology.