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Which of the following is the definition of an analytic sentence?

Decide whether the following statement is true or false:

The same proposition can be expressed by different sentences.

Which of the following can be loud or quiet?

Do the 2 sentences in the following pair share the same proposition?

(a) Jack was injured by a stone.

(b) Jack was injured with a stone.

What sense relation holds between the two sentences in following pair?

(a) Some of the students came to my party.

(b) Not all of the students came to my party.

What sense relation holds between the two sentences in following pair?

(a) Jane is a spinster.

(b) Jane is married.

What sense relation holds between the two sentences in following pair?

(a) The beetle is alive.

(b) The beetle is dead.

Do the sentences in the following pair show one-way entailment or two-way entailment?

(a) Eliza plays the flute.

(b) Eliza plays a musical instrument.

Which term does the following statement refer to?

“The entailments between a pair of sentences are mutual since the truth of either sentence guarantees the truth of the other.”

Do the sentences in the following pair show one-way entailment or two-way entailment?

(a) Alan planted roses.

(b) Alan planted flowers.

What sense relation holds between the two sentences in following pair?

(a) The fly was over the wall.

(b) The wall was under the fly.

Is the following statement true or false?

“Relational pairs of antonyms contribute to one-way entailments.”

Which term does the following definition refer to?

“The relationship between a word and a combination of other words with the same meaning; the whole project of describing or explaining word-meanings depends on paraphrase because we must use words — or other equivalent symbols — to explain other words”

What sense relation holds between the two sentences in following pair?

(a) Jim is fatter than Ed and Ed is fatter than Bob.

(b) Jim is fatter than Bob.

The sentences in the following pair are paraphrases of each other. Identify the way employed to paraphrase them.

(a) I’ll LOOK FOR that book right now.

(b) I’ll SEEK FOR that book at once.

Which term does the following definition refer to?

“A relationship that applies between two sentences, where the truth of one implies the truth of the other because of the meanings of the words involved.”

Is the following statement true or false?

“To provide a paraphrase we use our knowledge of both the meanings of individual words and of the English grammar.”

Do the sentences in the following pair show one-way entailment or two-way entailment?

The Jones sold their house to the Cruses.

The Cruses bought the house from the Jones.

Is the following statement true or false?

“Hyponymic relations between words result in a great number of one-way entailments.”

Which type of synonyms do the two verbs do – make belong to?