Explain which criteria for acceptability or unacceptability each premise meets. Explain your answers. The chicken is ready to eat. Alex is an outdoor lover. Machines can think.
Life continues after death.
Explain your answer. An athlete is a person who frequently performs strenuous physical movements. A house is a trap in which the buyer, following her dreams, becomes ensnarled by monthly mortgage payments. The weather here is abysmal. Anything that is abysmal is like an abyss, and an abyss is a chasm, or canyon.