Hello everyone,
I am currently doing some LR problems and I've had a recurring problem. When writing out conditional statements, I am sometimes confused whether a subject is part of the conditional statement or it is a subset of another item. This is best illustrated in an example. On preptest 21, LR 2, section 3 question 22 the stim states: "Anatomical bilateral symmetry is a common trait..." When doing the problem I wrote: ABS --> C. However, in his explanation JY simply put C, rather than the conditional relationship. So how do I know when to write a conditional or when to indicate a trait/subset by itself (ABS is common = C - ABS vs ABS--->C)?
Thank you in advance for your help.
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Thank you for the explanation! Was extremely helpful.
In order to ensure that I fully understand, I just wanted to confirm my thought process. Basically, rather than mapping out the conditional statement, JY simply pushed ABS into the domain of discourse. Similarly, the statement 'anyone can go to the park if you are happy' can be translated as Happy --> Park. The domain of discourse in this example is any human, given the 'anyone' in the phrase. Without the domain of discourse the conditional statement would be: Happy ---> Human --> Park.
Thanks again. Please let me know if I am correctly understanding.