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Question: Philosophy Logic (translation)!?
I am doing standard form categorical propositions in class and can't find out how to translate this sentence!. Would anyone mind helping me!?

Radio transmissions are disrupted whenever sunspot activity increases!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
All radio transmissions are (things that are )disrupted whenever sunspot activity increases!.

this is a universal affirmative (A) statement!.

I was taught to translate the predicate into a complete sentence, hence the words in paranthesis!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It's mostly in the effort of figuring out the syllogistic phrasing which results in this statement:

Radios Transmit under normal conditions!.
Sunspot Activity has increased!.
Radio transmissions have decreased!.
Sunspot radiation interferes with radio transmissions!.
Therefore, Increases in Sunspot activity results in disruptions of Radio transmissions!.

[Added Later: Well, that depends on whether you interpret your subject "Radio transmissions" as Some or All!. It doesn't specify by itself what it intends to mean, and the rest of the sentence doesn't clarify it with any excluding delimiters!.]Www@QuestionHome@Com

All radio transmissions are disrupted whenever there is increased sunspot activity!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Electromagnetic waves emitted by the sun interfere with other, weaker, electromagnetic waves!.

Syllogism class!?Www@QuestionHome@Com