your engineering background is really important in patent law and IP law!

i thought when you negate something, you can't do the opposite of the word, you have to do the contradiction of the word. so this was my diagramming:

material --> divisible

divisible -- > imperfect

material --> imperfect

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spirit --> /material

if we were to take the contrapositive, we would negate both sides and flip them around the arrow. so

/imperfect --> /divisible

in english, i would say this as "if not imperfect, then not divisible."

yes not imperfect implies perfect but i thought we weren't supposed to do the opposite word. could you clear this up as to when we are allowed to use the opposite word instead of the negated word?

i get these right by diagramming. problem is i take a million years to diagram each one. i need to learn the art of shallow dip smh

@miketrout27 no literally, i had to take a break from studying during fasting

i got 5/5 and was genuinely shocked, but the difficulty of questions made me feel less accomplished lol.

Wait, can someone explain why the phrase "the amount of aesthetic pleasure a diamond provides is relevant to the value it commands" doesn't justify the conclusion?

I feel like it goes hand-in-hand with the premise and conclusion? The conclusion was that they should be deemed of equal value, and if they both give the same amount of aesthetic pleasure, why would the necessary assumption not justify the conclusion?

@amara I felt that too, I was deciding between A and C but I chose A because C didn't sound like a rule to me

I have a bad habit of mis-reading questions where I don't acknowledge a keyword in an answer choice that makes or breaks the question. It has happened on quite a lot of questions, and when I look back, I'm not sure why I did not see the obvious keyword that made a question right or wrong.

I spent 3 minutes on this question, almost eliminating D because I did not see the word "not" after "could not" and thought that this was a very dumb answer choice. It was only re-reading it after 2 minutes when the other ACs didn't make sense is when I caught the "not."

Anyone else struggling with this?

I got the right answer by assuming that all pet stores were "independently owned."

However, the modifier was never presented in the first sentence. What if they are operated as chains, like Pet Smart or something like that? Why would I assume that all stores in West Galverton are independently owned if the context never mentioned it?

i guess my problem was that i focused on the issue as a whole rather than answering with one perspective.

@KarenLuviano what others have said before was to write every single question you got wrong down on a physical notebook as well as the answer choices and write down why every answer is wrong except for the right answer. force yourself to understand why the answer is the answer because the concepts associated will be applicable to future questions

@yam but fewer than half is in that 1% to 100% range, right? so why wouldn't we be able to use some