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Which PTs does the drill feature in the Core Curriculum v2 pull from? And is there a way to limit which PTs are used?
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bmchap186
Saturday, Jan 28 2023
@decesares1935 said:
@decesares1935 " said:
Review what lesson this type of problem this is from. It is giving an example of flawed reasoning. You left out the part where my car needs gas to run. (assuming we found this prompt in the same place.)
Thanks for the response!
It seems you found the example. Yes, it is giving an example of flawed reasoning. And yes, I did leave out the part at the very beginning. The passage, in its entirety, reads: "My car needs gas in order to run. Therefore, if I put some gas in the tank, my car will run."
So does the first part, "My car needs gas in order to run" change things so significantly that the IF statement can no longer be counted upon to introduce a sufficient condition?
A 1:1 comparison would be if the other example read: "You need to study in order to pass the LSAT. Therefore, if you study, you will beat the LSAT." Here, with the first statement preceding the second, we would then write the rule as B -> S instead of S -> B ? That doesn't seem right to me.
When you say "change things so significantly," I don't think you're thinking about it in the right way. "If" always introduces the sufficient condition. The statement "my car needs gas in order to run" -- by virtue of the logical indicator "needs" -- proposes that gas is a necessary condition for the car's ability to run. The statement that "if I put some gas in the tank, my car will run" is an entirely different statement that cannot be inferred from the previous statement. It could be independently true, but that is irrelevant for the purpose of this question; it proposes a different relationship between gas and the car's ability to run. But again, the point is that gas being sufficient cannot be inferred from the statement that gas is necessary.
bmchap186
Tuesday, Jan 11 2022
I think you're assuming a little too much from this AC. All it says is that 1. the birds may be contaminated with multiple toxins and 2. that the birds may eat just one type of fish. Neither of these statements (or the relationship between the two) cast doubt on the program's efficacy. Note how this AC says nothing about toxins in the fish and how they may be the same/different than toxins in the bird (something which it seems you are incorrectly inferring).
Given that your name is likely Dylan Karmorris, I would report.