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Tuesday, Apr 30 2024

looking back at everyone's comments and i think i have a better grasp of what's being shared in this lesson (please let me know if this is totally off #help):

it wouldn't be valid to infer that kumar would be marked at "late" even though he meets the necessary condition of being over 5 minutes late. why? because the necessary condition does not fill the sufficient condition (i.e. being marked as "late") ... so just because kumar arrived 17 mins after the last ring does not mean he was also marked as late.

that's why when they were comparing "if" and "only if" sentences in "Avoid Confusing Sufficiency for Necessity", it would have made sense for kumar to be marked as late "if" he arrived more than 5 minutes late... because then he would have filled the sufficient condition, whereas he would be marked as late "only if" he was more than 5 minutes late... he is fulfilling the necessary condition, but there is no guarantee that he is part of the subset of students that are also marked as late as a result of arriving 5+ minutes after the last bell.

so it sounds like the sufficient condition provides more of a guarantee that the necessary condition has been filled, while the necessary condition only guarantees that the necessary condition was filled... it doesn't always extend to the sufficient condition.

does that sound right?

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Monday, Jul 29 2024

not sure if you're still accepting people but i'm down!

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Wednesday, Jun 26 2024

#help got this question correct, but was initially confused on the "only if" part of the principle outlined by the lawyer. iirc, "only if" is a group 2 necessary indicator, which would mean the information immediately following it would be considered the necessary condition... so were we meant to interpret "only if the computer is typically used in the operation of a business" as a necessary condition? or should we have interpreted this part of the stim as the sufficient condition given the context?

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Tuesday, Jun 25 2024

#feedback is this a typo? "(2) harm in fact resulted to and's employees owing to the handling of such substance [...]"

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Wednesday, Jul 24 2024

if anyone needs a full on explanation of MOR questions and common AC types (including common wrong answers), there are two really great explanations in the comment section of the first module in the v.1 curriculum for the MOR unit. sort the comments by "Most Likes" and those two are the first to show up!

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uwagarba823
Thursday, Jul 18 2024

#help why would the mode of reasoning be causal and not principle/p-c based? i was able to select the correct answer by creating a rule connecting the premise to the conclusion.... so is it causal mainly because the conclusion says their efforts are ineffective?

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uwagarba823
Friday, May 17 2024

#help for a question like this (and implicit PAI disagree questions in general), could we kick up the domain of the overall subject (in this case, ESP) to make it easier to unveil the actual disagreement?

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uwagarba823
Thursday, May 16 2024

#feedback

"Just because we now know that storytelling appears to be a universal aspect of culture and language does not the storytellers themselves have known it all along, [...]" should be "Just because we now know that storytelling appears to be a universal aspect of culture and language does not mean the storytellers themselves have known it all along, [...]"

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Monday, Jun 10 2024

i'm interested!

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uwagarba823
Thursday, May 09 2024

#help ok i'm really confused. why is #5 considered a statement of intersectionality as opposed to a comparative statement like #6?

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uwagarba823
Monday, Sep 09 2024

i'm interested as well!!

I'm going through the "Skill Builder - Group 2 Translations" unit of the Conditional and Set Logic section in the Core Curriculum and I'm having some trouble understanding why contrapositives were not used for questions 7.1-7.5. Was looking through the forums and comments under that unit and couldn't find much that explained why contrapositives weren't being used here. I did, however, see a comment that mentioned contrapositives not being used because the conditional language was used to express a potential causal relationship (more than a sufficient-necessary relationship). However, it still seems that those statements are conditional with comparative and causal elements (at least based on the explanations provided for those statements and how I and others interpreted them).

So would statements indicating there being causal and/or comparative elements not require contrapositives, especially if the statements can also be translated into lawgic and indicate there being a sufficient/necessary relationship??

My apologies in advanced if this type of question is meant to go under that unit and not in the discussion forum. It's just that there wasn't much of a response (if any) from the tutors about this.

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uwagarba823
Monday, May 06 2024

#help finding that i'm mixing up clauses on the exercises where there are multiple in one sentence. when conditional indicators are in play, how do we make sure that we're not mixing them up? is there a way to determine which clause is clause 1 and which one is clause 2 (if it's not a matter of figuring out which clauses are sufficient/necessary conditions)?

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uwagarba823
Friday, Jul 05 2024

#help which PT and question is this?

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uwagarba823
Wednesday, Dec 04 2024

hey! i'm down to study! taking the April LSAT and currently working a 7-3 but i'm open to evening study sessions!!

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uwagarba823
Tuesday, Jun 04 2024

#feedback place the entire stim + ACs into the text explanation... when pausing the video, the entire screen goes white, so it's hard to analyze the stimulus or the answers when we can't see them (and by this i mean together at the beginning of the text and not spread out into the text (which personally that makes it hard to follow))

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Tuesday, Jul 02 2024

#help i'm at a loss here. i was in between B and E and went with B because of the wording. i can see now why E is correct (in that it's a bit clearer), but i'm still confused on how B doesn't address the fully qualified candidates who don't already work for Arvue ("Of all the candidates who do not already work for Arvue")...

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uwagarba823
Tuesday, Jul 02 2024

congratulations on the progress!!! keep up the good work!!!

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