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Now here's a great example of a question where translating abstract stimulus language into concrete and familiar examples is so important to understand the argument and its underlying logic (assumption). Like JY said, LSAT writers intentionally use abstract and overcomplicated language to obscure the logic, and one of the ways in which you can counter that is by simply translating vague principles and descriptions into simple, intuitive, and easily digestible examples that you can then work with. Now that I think of it, it's one of the most valuable LSAT skills in general and I see JY using it all the time when he is dissecting questions in LR.
What a perfect example of an answer choice which seems so obviously correct that you're hesitant to choose it solely because of this reason and end up wasting valuable time on double and triple confirming whether other answer choices are incorrect. LSAT test makers are some sneaky mfs
Got it right but damn Who tf are you Pat to just walk all over the rules and just YOINK the coupon like that
It would be terrific if 7Sage could introduce a separate drill-based assignment—perhaps daily or weekly—that focuses exclusively on translating statements into Lawgic and drawing valid inferences. Essentially, this would function like the Core Curriculum Skill Builder exercises, but in a recurring format that continually provides new translation drills for practice.
@KhushyMandania The difference is just about whether you are negating the conditional relationship (stating that it is not the case that A is sufficient for B) or negating the "all" statement (stating that it is not the case that ALL members of set A belong to set B). If we take the example of sentence "All dogs are cute" to illustrate this point, if we want to negate the conditional relationship in this sentence, that is to state that it's not sufficient to be a dog in order to be a cute being, we therefore write in Lawgic that we have D conjunction ~C (D and ~C) . It's like saying: "Hey, here's a set in which I have a dog, and look, it's not cute.) Alternatively, if we want to negate the quantifier ALL, meaning that we want to state that NOT ALL dogs are cute, we are therefore saying that some dogs are not cute, which we express in Lawgic by writing D < -- s -- > ~C. So, for all practical purposes, whether we are going to use one kind of negation or the other depends purely on what instructions are we given in English.
The curve on the T is crooked just like you are case dismissed