It's possible i'm confused, but "absolute comparisons" don't seem to be comparisons at all. The example used about Tom's lasagna recipe doesn't compare his recipe to anything. It seems like all comparisons are relative, by their nature of examining one thing in the context of another.

Below is my work for the earlier comparison of corn:

Some cultivars of corn are more morphologically similar to sorghum than to most other cultivars of corn

A v B: Sorghum vs other corn cultivars

condition: morphologically similarity to some cultivars of corn

winner : sorghum

I'm a bit confused by Example 2, where which is said to refer to a subject and predicate. Most of the time, when encountered with a pronoun (or a referential as they're described here), it can be replaced with its referent the and the clause will make sense. I can't replace 'which' with "A pet makes one's time at a retirement home more rewarding," though. "A pet makes one's time at a retirement home more rewarding will be important to more people as the average life span of our population increases" doesn't make any sense. It seems to me that 'which ' is referring something implied by the first sentence, like " a rewarding time at a retirement home". I would appreciate other's input.

Do exam questions always present context at the beginning of the passage?

It seems to me like the figure in the article should actually be a 3 dimensional graph, rather than 1 dimensional line. An argument could conceivably have many reasonable assumptions, or few unreasonable assumptions. There are three axis for measuring support then: support axis (valid inference or could be false) number of assumptions (few or many) and reasonableness of assumptions (reasonable or unreasonable).

Tiger:

Not all flowers are safe to eat. Some flowers are poisonous, and can have harmful effects when ingested.

Disney:

All polynomial functions are continuous

f(x) is a polynomial function

therefore, f(x) is continuous.

It is raining today

it was sunny yesterday

The device in my kitchen labelled "rain machine' is turned on today

The device was turned off yesterday

My hypothesis is that someone turned on the rain machine and made it rain.

#feedback I've been able to read the lessons up to this point (because I can read faster than JY can speak) but I wasn't able to do that here because the stimulus and stem are only available on the video. Would greatly prefer having example questions below with the rest of the lesson.