Solution to 6.

6. Neither Nike nor Exxon has a spotless public relations record.

The two simple statements are:

N = Nike has a spotless public relations record.

E = Exxon has a spotless public relations record.

The statement combines them via a compound subject. We could expand it out as

Neither (Nikehas a spotless public relations record) nor (Exxon has a spotless public relations record).

So clerly we have:

Neither N nor E

As explained in the text, we can translate 'neither ... nor ...' as either a negated disjunction or a a conjunction of negations. Let's do both:

Both of these are correct translations of the above statement. This is not because the statement is ambiguous, but because these two translations are equivalent, as we shall see in later parts of the course.