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I had to watch this a couple of times, and for me it was a great example of my intuitive thinking taking over my logical thinking. Even though it's so obviously simple when you draw the negation of "some" with circles, splitting the Venn diagram, thinking out loud to myself that "It is not true that some parrots are clever" is equivalent to saying "No parrots are clever" drove me nuts. I kept automatically thinking "well, if it is not true that some parrots are clever, maybe it's true that many/all/several parrots are clever" - always forgetting that you can't have all parrots being clever if some parrots aren't clever.
Whew!
All of which is to say - thank you for the diagrams!
Because of other circumstances, I'll be applying for law schools in January/February. When 7Sage says "you'll probably be fine", how fine are we talking here? Will law schools that have filled all their allotted slots by October/November close off admissions? Is getting deferred from a law school I apply to in February indicative that I could have gotten in if I had applied earlier?
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I'm still wondering why D is incorrect. I understand the assumption that the video narrator is making about someone sending Drew flowers without an aim to please Drew. But if the conclusion is that the florist doesn't make mistakes, wouldn't it weaken the argument to say that the florist never makes mistakes? The florist doesn't make mistakes, but this time they did, therefore the argument has an invalid conclusion.
What also added to my confusion in this explanation was that I've been telling myself over and over again NOT to make too many assumptions, because incorrect assumptions or thinking intuitively without checking my intuitions will get me in trouble. But here the...opposite process was better? I should have made an assumption that was not remotely said in the stimulus?
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Regarding Answer Choice D. Why is "not imprecise" → "adequate" not the contrapositive of the statement "not adequate" --> "imprecise" ?
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