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PT102.S3.Q21

jonrobertswork422

Thursday, Oct 21 2021

I thought the same thing. I reasoned the only reason for why they couldn't read it was because they didn't have access to it. But this is wrong only because of the conditional statement they inserted into the text. "A poet interested in Poetics would certainly have wanted to read Homer". This is saying anyone who is a poet and interested in Poetics, would have wanted to read it. So, instead of the reasoning we both had, they have totally changed the script, for which I missed as well.

They are saying that Interested in Poetics ---> You would want to read Homer. The contrapositive would be, You didn't want to read Homer ---> Therefore you must not be interested in Poetics. AC A says that they had copies of Homer's books, but in the context it says that they only translate those books that are in demand. Therefore AC A is blocking the assumption that they may have not had access to these books.

I just try to answer these questions to really help myself maybe get it, if I'm just completely off, somebody let me know.

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PT102.S3.Q4

jonrobertswork422

Wednesday, Oct 06 2021

Well is this merely because all of this conclusion was contained in his hypothesis? I guess that would kind of make sense.

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PT102.S3.Q4

jonrobertswork422

Wednesday, Oct 06 2021

It seems to me that this is attacking the conclusion rather the relationship itself. We're told that this "ferrous material" is "hypothesized" to be the reason for the increase in Algae. Well this seems like the assumption I should be weakening as AC C addresses.

Yet, AC D is correct, which is directly attacking the conclusion. We are told this material caused the increase in algae. Then, if we are to be choosing AC D, we turn around and say, "No, actually there just was no increase in Algae". This seems to be going against how I was taught to approach these types of questions.

Please somebody explain to me how this isn't just getting a conclusion and simply saying, "No, actually that isn't right", rather than actually attacking the relationship between the premise and the conclusion.

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PT102.S3.Q4

jonrobertswork422

Wednesday, Oct 06 2021

I chose AC C for a different reason. I chose this bc of the assumption that the material is the thing that caused the increase in Algae. I thought this because the scientist "hypothesized" this to be true. But JY's explanation of the reasoning of why this answer choice wasn't correct was not enough to persuade me either.

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PT106.S1.Q2

jonrobertswork422

Sunday, Oct 03 2021

While I agree with the last comment I don't think it explains WHY AC E is wrong. I had trouble with this problem for a couple days now but I believe I now understand why the answer choice is wrong.

So, if we negate the answer choice and check if it destroys our argument.

We see the negation is "Funding for scientific research is not at it's highest level".

When I first saw this I took this as shielding the assumption that the private funding is more money than the more government funding would be.

But, of course I was wrong.

Even if this "Funding for scientific research" were not at the highest level, we can still conclude that we should not have the government increase funding because we will lose more private funding. Because what does the highest level of funding have to do with anything... What contributes to being the "Highest level"? That's really what it is boiling down to. As I go through these NA questions I see more and more there's really just answers that have something to do with the stimulus and answers that are just there to make you make assumptions.

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Saturday, Sep 18 2021

jonrobertswork422

Just Got done with the LR portion of the CC, Now what?

I just finished the CC of the LR and want to further my understanding of the section. I don't think I am ready for timed practice just yet. My thinking of this is to just take the LR portions of old tests, or make my own mixed sets from the Problem Sets, but I've had a problem with the latter (making my own practice tests on 7sage). This was tedious and I couldn't save the practice tests I put together so I see that as a waste of time.

Let me know what you guys think I should do going forward because I could use the advise, thank you in advance.

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Wednesday, Jul 21 2021

This is just what I needed man.

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Thursday, Jul 01 2021

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jonrobertswork422

Sunday, Jun 20 2021

I'm still in the LR section of 7sage but I've read some on logic games in the Power Score Bible. Do you think it would be a good idea to still review with you without getting deeper into the curriculum?