# Lab 1 Assignment --- Albert Akmukhametov ## Solutions 1. There is no any possibility of mass destruction weapon existing in Iraq 2. - **Explicit**: It's raining so she didnt walk - **Implicit**: her car is not in the driveway 3. Not everyone could win in this "game" 4. - **P1:** The car unable to start because of the starter, the alternator or the battery malfunction - **P2:** We changed the alternator not long ago. It says that the alternator is ok. - **P3:** There is no possibility of low battery because it is fully charged. - **C:** There is some problem with a starter 5. - **P1:** Base jumping in national park is a misdemeanor offense - **P2:** Misdemeanor offenses are a parole violations - **C*)** Therefore, base jumping in national park is a parole violation - **P3:** Fernando is on parole viaolation - **P4:** Fernando went base-jumping and got caught - **P5:** Two parole violations are the reason to deport - **C:** Fernando is probably will be deported 6. - **P1:** if idaho is larger than california, then its larger than alaska - **P2 *(implicit)*:** california is equals or larger than alaska - **P3:** idaho is larger than california - **C:** idaho is larger than alaska - Argument succeeds logically - Argument is always true - Argument is good! 7. - **P1:** Idaho is south of Canada. - **P2:** Nevada is south of Idaho. - **C:** Therefore, Texas is south of Oklahoma. - Argument doesn't succeed logically - Argument is bad! 8. Types - Speaker says something while he means other things - Speaker does something, what goes against his words and expections of audienct - When listener knows something, that speaker can't or don't want to know