Cognitive Science Homework Question

[Chew_Barker]

Before I start, Im not trying to get someone to do my homework for me. I would like someone to translate the question into some thing I would understand.

We have been given this short text:

A man pulled over for driving slowly in the Australian outback has been charged with reckless
driving—because police found him driving in reverse.
The man was stopped for driving at a little over 56km/h (35mph) on a highway near the
outback town of Kalgoorlie.
But quick police work soon established that the car was in fact heading backwards—all the
way to Perth, some 550km (340 miles) across the desert.
The driver, 22, told police he chose to drive in reverse when his gears failed.
Police were left baffled as to why the unnamed driver chose not to call a mechanic from
Kalgoorlie, the Western Australia gold mining town where his gearbox “cooked”.
Instead they listened as he explained how he set off in reverse gear along the Great Eastern
Highway in his 1988 Ford.
He was forced to slow down from his top speed of 80km/h because he found himself swerving
wildly across the road, police said.
He had already travelled 20km before he was stopped.
Police breathalysed the man, who was found not to be under the influence of alcohol.

The 2nd Question (I could do the first) is:

How are (a) objects and (b) *events *referenced in the text? Give some examples. How
are these referents formalised in the language of classical logic?

Ok it is the frist part which is confusing me. What does it mean by, how are (a) and (b) referenced in the text ? What could this mean ?

Please help
Thanks

[spingears]

@Chew Barker

Before I start, Im not trying to get someone to do my homework for me. I would like someone to translate the question into some thing I would understand.
We have been given this short text:
The 2nd Question (I could do the first) is:
Ok it is the frist part which is confusing me. What does it mean by, how are (a) and (b) referenced in the text ? What could this mean ? Please help Thanks

Driving any automobile backwards at anything faster than a few mph is extremely difficult. The driver should have been charged with agravated stupidty!In addition to reckless driving. :rolleyes:

Otherwise the ‘facts’ will have to be sorted out, in detail, to determine the logic of the entire scenario. Start by identifing facts, and events before proceeding.

[TimeWinder]

I think it’s just confusingly worded; I suspect it’s asking you to IDENTIFY objects (police, man, speed limit, that sort of thing) and events (driving backward, exceeding speeds, etc.)

That’s going to be the easy part. Getting this into classical logic form will be tougher, especially with so much extraneous information. In particular, it’s not clear to me which event they care about translating: probably they’re looking for something like A was doing B, B is illegal, therefore A broke the law sort of thing, but…

[Punoqllads]

Question 2 is asking for two answers. Answer (a) will be how the objects in the text are referenced examples, etc.; and answer (b) will be how the events in the text are referenced, examples, etc.