LOGIC PROBLEMS
by ANYA SIMMS

Question 1
A) Given the following statements, use the transitive property to define hope. Show your work.
“To err is human.” — Alexander Pope
“There is hope in man.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Workspace:

error=human hope=human

error=human=hope

error=human=hope

hope=error

B) In a brief response, state whether what you have learned so far supports or negates your solution from part A.




Question 2
A) Consider the following statements. Can both be true simultaneously? Select the right answer.

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” — Rita Mae Brown

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.” — Anne Lamott

a) Yes. Hope is not singular. It can remain constant through variable choices and outcomes just as river water remains even through evaporation, seeping, freezing, and flooding.

b) No. Sanity and undying hope cannot coexist, much like snow and warming winters—with time, one necessarily disappears the other.

c) Undefinable. Hope and truth exist beyond the boundaries meager tools like logic and sanity can construct. They can be defined only by feeling the way love is realized through gently braided hair or warm, joined hands.

B) Explain the reason for your choice in part A.