"Only" Question

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  notwilliamwallace Alum Member

  June 2016 edited June 2016 1049 karma

  I believe it is the second one: Beautiful --> Best Artwork.
  
  If you use the first statement (Best Artwork --> Beautiful), then you are saying that other things can also be beautiful. Yes, best artwork is sufficient for being beautiful, but other things can be beautiful too...like rainbows.
  
  However, the second statement limits the beautiful things to only best artwork, which is what the statement is saying: Only the best artwork is beutiful (nothing else).
  
  Mechanically, only introduces necessary condition and "best artworks" is the idea that the word "only" refers to.
• stepharizona Alum Member

  June 2016 3197 karma

  @7JRBG180 said:
  Since "only" is a group 2 indicator (necessary), wouldn't it be the following:
  
  Best Artworks --> Beautiful
  
  Or, is it:
  
  Beautiful --> Best Artworks
  

  You are right that "only" is group 2, so the items that "Only" introduces is the necessary condition, in this case, best artworks.
  
  So...
  
  If something is beautiful, it is the best artworks
• Ganbatte Alum Member

  June 2016 40 karma

  Do this only if you do that.
  This -> that