"If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!"
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How should we translate this into a logical sentence in order to capture everything that’s going on here? First, we could just translate it as “P” but that seems way too easy. We can at least get the conditional and conjunction structure like this: P = “You’re happy.” | Q = “You know it.” | R = “Clap your hands.”
"If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!"
"If you're happy and you know it, clap your…
"If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!"
How should we translate this into a logical sentence in order to capture everything that’s going on here? First, we could just translate it as “P” but that seems way too easy. We can at least get the conditional and conjunction structure like this: P = “You’re happy.” | Q = “You know it.” | R = “Clap your hands.”