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Hey y'all just in a bit of a rut and need some clarification from my 7Sage peeps. When the term "unless" is used in a logic game rule with other groups things get kinda dicey for me quick.
For instance in an In/Out game if there is a rule which combines the negation of a player via the group 4 "not" or "cannot" group in the conditional I can't for the life of me get it down who gets negated and ends up in the sufficient. Example:
"cannot select J unless W is also selected" . Question: Do I negate J to /J via cannot, then negate my negation of /J again via "unless" to end up with: If J --> W ? Is this correct?
I thought I had this mastered until I took PT 87 Game # 3 (Double layer Sequencing)
"Hanbock cannot be shown earlier than the third week unless Ibex is shown in the first week"
Who gets negated, how, and ends up in the sufficient? Sorry if this is painful for those who have mastered LG conditional logic. Thank you for your help!
-Drew
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@margaritmargaritov29 said:
Cannot...Unless is super common on LG and honestly, I translate these only when it's group 3 or group 4 independently.
Group 3+4 are the easiest to handle because they cancel each other out, so you just drop them:
Cannot - negative
unless = if not - negative
2 negatives make a positive
So:
x cannot be in group 1 unless y is in group 1
x cannot be in group 1 unless y is in group 1
x in group 1, y in group 1
This is equivalent to all these:
IF x in group 1, THEN y in group 1
x in group 1, ONLY IF y in group 1
Hope it helps.
And in regard to the inferences - I have been in the same boat - drilling games with conditionals is key, but find games that JY splits the board and force yourself to do them just by using the conditional chain. PT43 G3 is not too difficult, but good practice.
I really like PT41 G3 - it has 2 bi-conditional and it was a real cluster for me in the beginning. JY solves it with 4 boards leveraging the bi-conditionals - do it just following the chain.
That's an excellent way to retrain yourself via omission of "cannot" and "unless". I like that a lot. I will def check that game out. I haven't taken anything in the 40's so this is perfect for me. Thanks for your help
@jordanjohnsonjr282 said:
@jordanjohnsonjr282
I like to simplify my conditionals as best I can. So this statement:
"Hanbock cannot be shown earlier than the third week unless Ibex is shown in the first week"
... can be translated to:
"H can be shown earlier than the third week only if I is shown in the first week"
(When I see an 'unless', I always negate the sufficient and change 'unless' to 'only if' when I see the term. It's quicker than trying to decide which thing to negate on-the-fly.)
That should produce the following, assuming multiple variables can be in the same spot:
" H_1/2 --> I_1" (aka "H can be in 1 or 2 [or both] only if I is in 1").
Hope that helps!
That's brilliant!
Cannot...Unless is super common on LG and honestly, I translate these only when it's group 3 or group 4 independently.
Group 3+4 are the easiest to handle because they cancel each other out, so you just drop them:
Cannot - negative
unless = if not - negative
2 negatives make a positive
So:
x cannot be in group 1 unless y is in group 1
x cannot be in group 1 unless y is in group 1
x in group 1, y in group 1
This is equivalent to all these:
IF x in group 1, THEN y in group 1
x in group 1, ONLY IF y in group 1
Hope it helps.
And in regard to the inferences - I have been in the same boat - drilling games with conditionals is key, but find games that JY splits the board and force yourself to do them just by using the conditional chain. PT43 G3 is not too difficult, but good practice.
I really like PT41 G3 - it has 2 bi-conditional and it was a real cluster for me in the beginning. JY solves it with 4 boards leveraging the bi-conditionals - do it just following the chain.
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@jordanjohnsonjr282
I like to simplify my conditionals as best I can. So this statement:
"Hanbock cannot be shown earlier than the third week unless Ibex is shown in the first week"
... can be translated to:
"H can be shown earlier than the third week only if I is shown in the first week"
(When I see an 'unless', I always negate the sufficient and change 'unless' to 'only if' when I see the term. It's quicker than trying to decide which thing to negate on-the-fly.)
That should produce the following, assuming multiple variables can be in the same spot:
" H_1/2 --> I_1" (aka "H can be in 1 or 2 [or both] only if I is in 1").
Hope that helps!
This definitely helps! I also just reviewed those lessons as per your suggestions and they definitely cemented that for me. Thank you. I typically choose the Group 3 version for some reason my brain just gravitates toward automatically negating the sufficient and going with that. Glad to see they are interchangeable logically (been a while since I took that lesson)
I suppose my second issue is extracting LG inferences from them when they involve spatial elements like "H cannot be shown earlier than 3 unless I is shown in 1." = "H is after 3 if I is 1" type stuff. Maybe the solution is to just find conditional games and drill them until it clicks
Thank you guys for your help. Also anyone reading this thread feel free to chime in if you struggle too and/or have found some awesome ways to go about locking these down in LG's. Cheers!
:)
Hi, here is the explanation by JY: https://classic.7sage.com/lesson/group-3-group-4/.
First, you have to remember that when you pick a group, the other logical indicator becomes a negation. Meaning that the used indicator/group you are using variable will be left alone and whatever the unused indicator/group you are not using variable will be negated.
So, if I pick Group 3 (W) than J's "Cannot" = /, which means I have / J & W
W is left alone because it's following the Group I am using and J is part of the group I did not choose so it gets negated.
If I pick Group 4 (J) than W's "Unless" = /, which means I have J & / W
J is left alone because it's following the Group I am using and W is part of the group I did not choose so it gets negated.
Group 3:
Cannot select J unless W is also selected
Find variables (In this case because I chose Group 3, I will leave the W alone (because it follows unless) and apply the negation to the J which is indicated by the "cannot", "cannot" = /)
So, I have:
/ J W
Apply Group 3 Rule (pick variable J, negate it, make it sufficient)
J - W
Contrapositive: / W - / J
Group 4:
Cannot select J unless W is also selected
Find variables (In this case because I chose Group 4, I will leave the J alone (because it follows the "Cannot") and apply the negation to the W which is indicated by the "unless", "unless" = /)
So, I have:
J / W
Apply Group 4 Rule (pick variable W, negate it, make it necessary)
J - W
Contrapositive: / W - / J
Hope that helps!
Review Introduction to Logic, section 45 questions for the translation rules and practice questions. This will clear this up. You can use either one, but you must follow the methodology or you will get turned around, or at least confused. Look at, and do several of the problems to get this clear.