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jsemenza21213
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jsemenza21213
Thursday, Jan 23 2025
Can I assume “not generally worse” means equal??? I got this wrong interpreting “not generally worse” as generally most have the same diet, i.e. many do not.
Thus if many (20%) of kids have worse diets this would certainly impact the ratio. I chose C as a result since it ruled out people didn’t know to brush their teeth.
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jsemenza21213
Monday, Jan 20 2025
21 is tough. Between A and D. If you asked me why did the author use the phrasing “purely social phenomeon” I’d say to emphasize these practices are non-economic. But that’s different than the phrase being equivalent anything that’s not a social derived phenomenon.
jsemenza21213
Saturday, Jan 18 2025
I got caught up thinking it was old —most—> Wealth
And confused myself. Any tips to help me avoid this mistake?
jsemenza21213
Tuesday, Jan 14 2025
The key is the prompt says “all contemporary artists” feel their art gives aesthetic values. So only one instance would prove them right.
D) seems like it would be right on any other prompt but D) totally invalidates it while E) hurts the liklihood by diminishing the potential causal relationship between # of great historic works compared to satisfaction elsewhere.
jsemenza21213
Monday, Jan 13 2025
yes I missed the keyword “relatively” unreliable. Thus D is too strong to state they are never accurate.
jsemenza21213
Thursday, Jan 02 2025
I agree. This was my line of reasoning (and I thought E) was eliminated on basis that he proposed two options: volacanic activity or global warming as solutions.)
I think C) is wrong bc the prompt says “After all….[could be volcanic or GW that rose sea levels]” not “Because of this...[could be volcanic or GW that rose sea levels]”. I think this key wording distinction doesn’t establish the causal link but idk.
And for E) I see now there is a singular solution rising (sea levels) that mustve cause this sediment to end up where it did. Volcanic Activity and GW are just two causes for this one potential solution [for how sediment got there].
jsemenza21213
Saturday, Dec 07 2024
The only way I can discount B) in my mind is that “contains” could mean only 1 cacti plant. I think if it said contains same level of cacti plant as before the blight, then it would be correct, no?
jsemenza21213
Friday, Dec 06 2024
Thank you for such a thorough explanation that really gets into the logic of why someone might have picked each choice.
jsemenza21213
Wednesday, Dec 04 2024
Why was it obvious that “it shows that” referred to the entire passage prior and not to solely the previous sentence?
jsemenza21213
Monday, Nov 25 2024
What does “presuppose” mean in this context?
jsemenza21213
Friday, Nov 22 2024
Yes but the issue here the disagreement in answer choice A) isn't "the method of acquiring knowledge” it regarding how children gain a specific type of knowledge, “fundamental knowledge”. B explicitly takes a stance on this while A does not. A only discusses knowledge to be successful.
For all we know, fundamental knowledge isn’t required to be successful. Do you need to know fundamental knowledge like what a subject and a predicate is to become a successful instagram influencer? Probably not.
jsemenza21213
Wednesday, Nov 20 2024
I felt confident C) would most weaken the argument. If process takes millions of years THEN it would weaken the geologist argument that scientists can be refuted based on biomarkers indicating PRESENT or past existence of an organism. In this case, wouldn’t the fact that petroluem is made over millions of years indicate that no present/alive organism could be found via biomarkers.
I guess as long as the biomarker found past OR present organisms in the petroleum then we are fine. Answer choice C) just refutes that ut could be present material?
jsemenza21213
Tuesday, Nov 19 2024
thank you! switching to chrome fixed it.
jsemenza21213
Monday, Nov 18 2024
Regarding Choice D----> The reviewer states choice D does not imply mosts As are Cs (at 18:35)?
if most As are Bs and Most Bs are Cs then aren't Most As Cs??? Does the logic not work with "most" statements? Meaning you can only do this with if and then statements but not "most statements"( if A->B, if B--> C then A-->C.)
jsemenza21213
Friday, Nov 15 2024
does "in the relevant sense" mean like "in the sense used in the argument"?
I followed the logic on this when originally answering the question and got tripped up on this wording thinking it was a juxtaposition with morality "in it self". Now I think I see it was intended to mean he failed to justify why this argument was immoral as liberals think.
jsemenza21213
Wednesday, Nov 06 2024
So I was able to get this right by immediately recognizing the flaw. But the wording on this answer is confusion such that if there was an additional choice where "necessary" was swapped with "sufficient", I would have been lost.
Actually, as I thought about it and wrote this I got it.
He presupposed if [being cat] has certain property of [mammal status] then having [mammal status] property, is sufficient for being a cat.
This is of course, incorrect
jsemenza21213
Tuesday, Nov 05 2024
So I follow the logic here, how do I do that quickly on the exam? And know which questions deserve a full write out and ones that don't? I guess read it and if I'm stumped turn to writing out the conditionals, etc??
jsemenza21213
Monday, Nov 04 2024
the phrasing "they miss the causal relationship between people and institutions" is actually most telling hint aka they don't understand people cause insititutions to be a certain way not the other way around. E lays that out.
How was I supposed to know that Professional tailors did everything a [normal] tailor does?