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Hey yall I’m trying make sure I’m understanding how to diagram when these words Unless/Except/Until/Without come up in conditional sentences.
“Unless your GPA stays at 3.5+, you don’t keep the scholarship”
I have learned to cancel out the unless and don’t as two negatives and get:
If gpa stays at 3.5+, then you keep scholarship ….
But I did the 7sage lsats game and it’s telling me I got this conditional wrong….
My theory is I’m missing a step here of then making what follows the unless the necessary condition so:
First cancel don’t and unless
Then make what follows the unless the necessary so I’d get:
If you keep scholarship then gpa stays at 3.5+
Is what is above the correct way to diagram the original statement in quotations? Thank you
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For any game scroll to the bottom for 7Sage lessons on that topic.
Conditionals Cheat Sheet
youtube.com/watch?v=Tjdkaq4A-xM
I would recommend going through the Lesson Library. The course content on Foundations and Logical Reasoning walks through the thought process.
Theory and Approach (SA)
Here is the quick reference you asked for: 4-groups-of-conditional-indicators-summary - Miro
I formatted it a bit, print second page: Conditional Indicators.docx
@NoNamed92 thank you!
I like to just read "unless" as "If not..."
So I'd read your statement as "If your GPA does NOT stay 3.5+, you don't keep the scholarship."
The mistake in your interpretation is that this statement isn't saying you will keep the scholarship if your GPA does stay above 3.5+. It's just saying staying above 3.5+ is one necessary condition for keeping the scholarship. But even if someone maintains that GPA, maybe they still lose the scholarship because they lied on their personal statement or got convicted of a crime etc.