@DarrenHineman Usually it refers to drawing out arrows to track conditionals. But it could also refer to drawing out subsets and supersets. Drawing circles is inherently more unwieldy, so it tends to be less practical.
I feel like this kinda answers a question I've been sitting on, which is whether 7Sage suggests we straight-up memorize the words in the four groups of conditional indicators (Group 1: if, when, where, all, every, any, the only; Group 2: only, only if, only when, only where, always, must; etc.). It seems now like the answer is no, since we won't be diagramming during the test (except for one or two questions per section). It seems like 7Sage does want us confidently understand the relationship between those conditional indicators and the underlying logic, but not through rote memorization (or at least not necessarily through rote memorization).
@ToweringTextbooks Nope ... the very next lesson is a "you try" situation where the lesson expects me to have memorized which group the word "unless" is in. So yes, now I DO think 7Sage recommends we memorize these groups. (edit: keep reading this thread to find that 7Sage does NOT think memorization is the goal)
@ToweringTextbooks OK, double-nope (which is a double negative, so we're back to yup). Later in that same next lesson it says "Ultimately, you’ll get to a point where you read that statement and quickly know ..."
So maybe 7Sage is suggesting we memorize the words in the short term as a way of gaining fluency, but that when we arrive at the desired final understanding we won't need those group lists anymore.
@ToweringTextbooks OK, I found my concrete answer in the lesson called "Conditionals without Indicators." That lesson introduces an as-yet-unseen pseudo-indicator (the word "guarantees"). Of the strategy of simply adding "guarantees" to Group 2, and memorizing this new member, the lesson says "I wouldn't recommend that strategy. The reason is because it creates an illusion that you can master conditional logic by simply memorizing words in a list." Case closed: the goal is not simply to memorize.
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Question how can we get more practice . Will these questions be on some drills ?
To clarify, by "diagramming" is it referring to using lawgic or using the subset and superset circles?
@DarrenHineman Usually it refers to drawing out arrows to track conditionals. But it could also refer to drawing out subsets and supersets. Drawing circles is inherently more unwieldy, so it tends to be less practical.
This little pep talk was perfectly timed. tyyy
I feel like this kinda answers a question I've been sitting on, which is whether 7Sage suggests we straight-up memorize the words in the four groups of conditional indicators (Group 1: if, when, where, all, every, any, the only; Group 2: only, only if, only when, only where, always, must; etc.). It seems now like the answer is no, since we won't be diagramming during the test (except for one or two questions per section). It seems like 7Sage does want us confidently understand the relationship between those conditional indicators and the underlying logic, but not through rote memorization (or at least not necessarily through rote memorization).
@ToweringTextbooks Nope ... the very next lesson is a "you try" situation where the lesson expects me to have memorized which group the word "unless" is in. So yes, now I DO think 7Sage recommends we memorize these groups. (edit: keep reading this thread to find that 7Sage does NOT think memorization is the goal)
@ToweringTextbooks OK, double-nope (which is a double negative, so we're back to yup). Later in that same next lesson it says "Ultimately, you’ll get to a point where you read that statement and quickly know ..."
So maybe 7Sage is suggesting we memorize the words in the short term as a way of gaining fluency, but that when we arrive at the desired final understanding we won't need those group lists anymore.
@ToweringTextbooks OK, I found my concrete answer in the lesson called "Conditionals without Indicators." That lesson introduces an as-yet-unseen pseudo-indicator (the word "guarantees"). Of the strategy of simply adding "guarantees" to Group 2, and memorizing this new member, the lesson says "I wouldn't recommend that strategy. The reason is because it creates an illusion that you can master conditional logic by simply memorizing words in a list." Case closed: the goal is not simply to memorize.