Consider the following premises. Thomas is not a bartender. Linda is taking a plane and Michael is a politician. Thomas is a bartender or Thomas is a scientist. Can we infer the following from them? If we can, name the inference rule being used: Linda is not taking a plane.
 From the fact that Thomas is a bartender or Thomas is a scientist, and that Thomas is not a bartender we can infer that Thomas is a scientist via disjunctive syllogism. Finally, from the fact that Linda is taking a plane and Michael is a politician we can infer that Linda is taking a plane via simplification, which contradicts that Linda is not taking a plane. Therefore, the answer is no.