Personal Foul??
 

Testing for promotion this weekend. Study guides I am using have these questions with conflicting answers:

" A personal foul cannot occur during a dead ball." It says T
" A personal foul can only occur during a live ball." It says F

I say the first one is wrong and should be False because of the airborne shooter exception when the ball is dead. (4-19-1)

Everyone agree or disagree with me?

First one should be wrong... per your argument of the definition in 4-19-1

For professional reasons I should be an expert in things like these. :)

Let's try and translate those sentences into logically equivalent ones:

(1) If the ball is dead then a foul is not personal
(2) If a foul is personal then the ball is alive

Let's write A for "a foul is personal" and B for "the ball is alive". Then
(1) becomes "If (not B) then (not A)", while (2) becomes "if A then B".

Now it's well known that "If P then Q" is logically equivalent to
"(not P) or Q". Then (1) is logically equivalent to "(not not B) or (not A)"
while (2) is equivalent to "(not A) or B". It's now sufficient to remember
that "(not not B)" is equivalent to "B".

I've shown that the two sentences say exactly the same thing and
it cannot happen that one is false and the other is true.

Another proof that math is useful. :D

Ciao

I agree.

Good luck with promotion!!

I'm also going for promotion and with work and ref schedule, little time for study. What study guides are you using?

Good luck, Bob. I'm sure you'll do fine.

PS: My letter must of worked... unlike some people on this forum (uhh, M&M - shhhh) I only sent one letter instead of two. ;) Something tells me the second letter would not have worked. :D

'Ya think? :D It was actually a test to see if you were paying attention. You apparently passed.

Good luck as well, Bob.

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Last year's Part 2 and this year's Part 1

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I was real pleased with the way that you begged them to let me apply for promotion. One of the other letters even offered a small bribe! :D

Wellllll, the things I do for fellow officials. :D