I still don't get why the conclusion in Question 2 is "Hermes likes to eat wasabi" and not "Hermes watches the Olympics and likes to eat wasabi".. why is watching the Olympics not included in the conclusion if that makes sense??
So Just a pointer for anyone struggling.. some of these don't really need to be mapped out. For Example I noticed in the comments a lot of people were hung up on Question 5. I intuitively understood what the answer was before mapping it out. The Ume blooms from Dec-Jan, thats only 2 months. Only trees that bloom for 3 or more months are amenable to the emperor. Therefore, if Ume blooms for only 2 months it must be true that the Ume is not amenable to the tastes of the emperor. It's below the 3-month rule based on the set of facts. I hope this helps somewhat. We're all in this together, we got this!
I am so lost that I dont even know what to ask for help on. I feel like I don't understand any of it. Is it really needed to learn the lawgic? Or can I just skip it? I feel like I just want to give up.
Question 5 threw me off because I was trying to understand the first sentence as a sufficient and necessary condition. In reality, it is meant to be a statement that the ume is not a member of the set of "trees that bloom for three or more months".
I did what he did in the video and got the answers he got in the videos correct. But on the actual questions when I clicked view answer, I got it wrong.
#help For Q.4 my initial logic translation was the contrapositive /RSVP -> /I because I interpreter as the invite (I) as the negate necessary. Subsequently, Rudy affirmed the sufficient which triggers the necessary condition (/I). Is this the correct approach? I am confused.
Q2: He maps the first sentence as a conditional claim (Gods of Mt O -> Watch Olympics). But isn't that just membership in a set? Bc to map it that way implies the contrapositive is true, and I dont think that holds based on the sentence (/Watch Olympics -> /Gods of Mt O). What am I missing here?
could you also say, for Question 1, that Andrew is not a non swimmer? That's where my mind went at first. Andrew is a swimmer ofc, but he could also be not a non swimmer?
When you have a double "negative", like in question 4, no X , ... did not Y, is the usual lawgic translation then X -> Y? Thats kinda a pattern I'm noticing but idk if that always holds true.
For number 4, according to rule 4 for conditional indicators, could you also negate I and put it as the necessary condition, such as /R --> /I? They are reversed compared to what was shown in the video, but I wanted to confirm.
Ok so I finished the foundations and I came back part way though LR to brush up on my skills. Some encouragement its so much easier now. So keep going everyone.
Last time I had a hard time with #5 but this time I was able to work it out, here is how I did it.
Ume blooms (UB)only December though January (D-J)
UB-->D-J
if Tree blooms 3 months or more (TB3M) it is amenable to the Emperor (EM)
TB3M-->EM
then realized that D-J is less then 3 months so for the purpose of this question.
D-J= /TB3M.
so
UB --> /TB3M
TB3M-->EM (took the contrapositive )
/TB3M--> /EM
then chain the conditionals
UB--> /TB3M--> /EM
Simply
UB--> /EM
and translate back to english
Ume blooming is not amendable to the tastes of the Emperor.
i think i am starting to understand this better. mind you, first go-around last year i completely skipped over Lawgic. if your new do not skip you will waste valuable time and you will have to go back and learn it. hindsight 2020
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5/5
For question #5 you have to assume that an Ume is a tree, is that an assumption that a reasonable person would make without prior context?
bruh i really said 'jackson is a non-swimmer' for the first one am i actually stupid or something
Wouldn't there be 2 conclusions for Q2??
Hermes watches the Olympics
and
Hermes likes to eat Wasabi?
why are these so easy compared to the actual questions i feel like it doesnt apply
five fo five baby lfg
I still don't get why the conclusion in Question 2 is "Hermes likes to eat wasabi" and not "Hermes watches the Olympics and likes to eat wasabi".. why is watching the Olympics not included in the conclusion if that makes sense??
So Just a pointer for anyone struggling.. some of these don't really need to be mapped out. For Example I noticed in the comments a lot of people were hung up on Question 5. I intuitively understood what the answer was before mapping it out. The Ume blooms from Dec-Jan, thats only 2 months. Only trees that bloom for 3 or more months are amenable to the emperor. Therefore, if Ume blooms for only 2 months it must be true that the Ume is not amenable to the tastes of the emperor. It's below the 3-month rule based on the set of facts. I hope this helps somewhat. We're all in this together, we got this!
I am so lost that I dont even know what to ask for help on. I feel like I don't understand any of it. Is it really needed to learn the lawgic? Or can I just skip it? I feel like I just want to give up.
Question 5 threw me off because I was trying to understand the first sentence as a sufficient and necessary condition. In reality, it is meant to be a statement that the ume is not a member of the set of "trees that bloom for three or more months".
Confused on 3
I did what he did in the video and got the answers he got in the videos correct. But on the actual questions when I clicked view answer, I got it wrong.
#help For Q.4 my initial logic translation was the contrapositive /RSVP -> /I because I interpreter as the invite (I) as the negate necessary. Subsequently, Rudy affirmed the sufficient which triggers the necessary condition (/I). Is this the correct approach? I am confused.
Q2: He maps the first sentence as a conditional claim (Gods of Mt O -> Watch Olympics). But isn't that just membership in a set? Bc to map it that way implies the contrapositive is true, and I dont think that holds based on the sentence (/Watch Olympics -> /Gods of Mt O). What am I missing here?
Im super annoyed. I thought I mapped 5 correctly but he still mapped it in revers of what I did.
Anyone hung up on Question 5, here is how I map it out.
Ume -> Blooms December to January -> blooms 2 months -> /bloom 3+ months
Amenable -> bloom 3+ months.
/3+ months -> /Amenable
Ume -> /Amenable
could you also say, for Question 1, that Andrew is not a non swimmer? That's where my mind went at first. Andrew is a swimmer ofc, but he could also be not a non swimmer?
When you have a double "negative", like in question 4, no X , ... did not Y, is the usual lawgic translation then X -> Y? Thats kinda a pattern I'm noticing but idk if that always holds true.
number 5 cooked me because I wasnt even paying attention to what the words meant. Oops.
5/5!!!
For number 4, according to rule 4 for conditional indicators, could you also negate I and put it as the necessary condition, such as /R --> /I? They are reversed compared to what was shown in the video, but I wanted to confirm.
Ok so I finished the foundations and I came back part way though LR to brush up on my skills. Some encouragement its so much easier now. So keep going everyone.
Last time I had a hard time with #5 but this time I was able to work it out, here is how I did it.
Ume blooms (UB)only December though January (D-J)
UB-->D-J
if Tree blooms 3 months or more (TB3M) it is amenable to the Emperor (EM)
TB3M-->EM
then realized that D-J is less then 3 months so for the purpose of this question.
D-J= /TB3M.
so
UB --> /TB3M
TB3M-->EM (took the contrapositive )
/TB3M--> /EM
then chain the conditionals
UB--> /TB3M--> /EM
Simply
UB--> /EM
and translate back to english
Ume blooming is not amendable to the tastes of the Emperor.
hope this helps
i think i am starting to understand this better. mind you, first go-around last year i completely skipped over Lawgic. if your new do not skip you will waste valuable time and you will have to go back and learn it. hindsight 2020
Wouldn't Hermes both like watching the Olympics AND like eating Wasabi? I dont understand how thats the only conclusion drawn
I'm starting to get this stuff!