Determine whether the following claim is best classified as semantically ambiguous (and whether this contains grouping ambiguities), syntactically ambiguous, or free from ambiguity: Residents of the continental United States have more pets than those of Alaska.

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Grouping ambiguity; semantically ambiguous.

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Augustine believed that the state is a necessary evil, which was instituted to restrain the lawlessness of human nature

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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At the level of the Logic of Statements, a tautology is implied by any statement and an inconsistent statement implies any statement

Moreover, any two tautologies or any two self-contradictory statements are equivalent. With regard to implication and equivalence, how should we resolve the differences between the treatment of these concepts in the Logic of Statements and how these same concepts apply in everyday real-world discourse? What will be an ideal response

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

A particular statement is a statement about a specific individual or thing such as Tom or Tom's car.

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A vegetable is the best source of vitamins and minerals, so members of the cabbage family

must be good sources of vitamins and minerals. From this we can infer that broccoli is a good thing to eat. Besides, it tastes terrible, and things that taste terrible must be good to eat

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