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  • Wednesday, Nov 12

    I think you guys all know this but I have to ask.

    Should I treat what comes after "requires" the same as "necessary"?

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  • Edited Thursday, Nov 06

    To own a dog one must have responsibility. If you have responsibility you must be intelligent, Which further requires a desire. Therefore, if you want to own a dog you must have a desire. OAD->R->I->D. OAD->D. I know there are plenty of flawed assumptions here.

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  • Saturday, Sep 20

    At 3:27 of the video, does the unless sentence is one cannot become a jedi equal to /J, and then the group 3 indicate flipped it to J --> D?

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  • Thursday, Aug 14

    what settings have you all been using when creating drills? Unsure of where to even begin when it comes to drilling to enamel sure I’m understanding everything.

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  • Saturday, Aug 02

    another way to think about it:

    most x are y

    all y are z

    thus, most x are z

    x -> y -> z

    same thing, but this just works better in my head. from Ethan Sterling's lsat book

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  • Wednesday, Jul 30

    To be a Jedi, one must be a Force user. Becoming a Force user requires years of training, which further requires extraordinary discipline. Therefore, one cannot become Jedi unless one possesses extraordinary discipline.

    The conclusion has the Group 3 indicator word. What do we do with the translation rules then?

    Since for the solution J --> F --> T --> D is J -->D we did not use the Group 3 translation. It just mapped it out.

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  • Thursday, Jul 17

    Guys why is "To be a Jedi, one must be a Force user." a conditional statement, when there isn't a conditional indicator. I get it is conditional, but their teaching us to rely on the indicator to know which group it is.

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  • Monday, Jun 30

    /feedback For the Jedi argument, break down the lawgic sentence by sentence. Currently, it jumps right to the solution

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  • Wednesday, Jun 04

    Is anyone super lost this far in or is it just me lmao

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  • Wednesday, Jun 04

    Is "requires" a conditional indicator?

    #feedback

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  • Thursday, May 22

    What I do not understand is how exactly the negate sufficient rule is being applied in the conclusion, because to me it seems incorrect. Since there is an unless in the why is the conclusion not /J →D or /D→J. Is it because the cannot is in front of the Jedi so it makes it /J→/D. This part is confusing for, can someone please explain.

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  • Friday, May 16

    Can you comment and give feedback if this is a valid argument for this type of formal argument chaining A -> B -> C

    If i want to drink water, then I will go to water station only when I feel thirsty. Therefore, I will drink water requires the state of thirstiness.

    A - Drink water

    B - Water Station

    C - Feel thirsty

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  • Wednesday, May 14

    This became a little more convoluted for me. Combining the previously learned topics (trying to use the conditional indicators to implement Lawgic) with the chaining gets pretty confusing for me.

    I needed to slow this down to make sure that I was following.

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  • Wednesday, May 07

    So Im trying to understand this lesson within the framework that has been set out for us

    We learned that there is two types of logic:

    (i) formal logic

    (ii) informal logic

    We said formal logic contains:

    (i) conditional logic -- sufficient and necessary conditions

    (ii) Logic of sets -- sets, supersets, subsets, membership and intersecting sets

    Now, the way we are referencing back is by the kind of argument we learned. this lesson starts off by saying we are about to learn the third kind of argument within formal logic. It states that so far we learned:

    1) necessary conditions arguments

    2) contrastive arguments

    3) Chaining conditionals argument

    I guess where I am getting a bit mixed up is why we said formal logic contains two types of logic and then went on to list three different arguments. I am trying to figure out which argument fits within which kind of logic, but writing this out made me realize that its not that there are two categories of logic within formal logic and that all arguments fit within one of the two, but rather, that there are two forms of logical reasoning that formal logic is composed of and all the kinds of arguments within formal logic make use of this reasoning.

    Is this accurate? if anyone has comments, please let me know.

    Good luck studying everyone!

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  • Wednesday, Apr 09

    Did anyone else catch the fact that the last example, the conclusion had two different conditional indicator "Cannot" and "Unless", which are part of two DIFFERENT indicator groups. So what would you do in this situation?

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  • Thursday, Mar 13

    Should I treat the middle link as a sub-conclusion? My reasoning follows this logic: A provides support for B, B in itself receives support from A but also includes support for C. Am I wrong in my reasoning?

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  • Tuesday, Feb 25

    Can someone explain to me again why "since" would mean that the statement to the right is to be first? (in the example since meant that C --> M, not C --> A --> M

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  • Thursday, Feb 20

    This made more sense then separating between the groups and making the ideas sufficient/necessary lmao

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  • Tuesday, Jan 21

    #help This has been explained a couple of times, but I still cannot seem to wrap my brain around it. For the sentence, "Therefore, one cannot become Jedi unless one possesses extraordinary discipline.", I know I must follow the translation rule of group 3 because of the word "unless". However, I do not seem to be practicing the correct lawgic.

    I keep doing: "If not become jedi, then possess extraordinary discipline" (negating the sufficient). I know this is incorrect but unsure why I am doing the lawgic incorrectly. Should I be saying "If not cannot become jedi, then possess extraordinary discipline"? Would really appreciate some help!

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  • Tuesday, Jan 07

    why cant I slow down this video?

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  • Wednesday, Jan 01

    The indicator “since” threw me off.

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  • Tuesday, Dec 03 2024

    Can C become D, or B become C? Or is it about A being able to become any of the letters?

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  • Tuesday, Nov 26 2024

    Is it safe to just skip this? I still remember what is called a hypothetical syllogism from my logic classes.

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  • Tuesday, Oct 29 2024

    similar to the transitive property in math

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  • Tuesday, Sep 24 2024

    It just clicked... to be a Jedi, one must possess extraordinary discipline..... is this example all code for becoming a lawyer, J.Y.? hahaha

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