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Cut the tutoring. Exercising more than once a week is probably a bad use of time for now. Replace dinner with food shakes and pre-cooked crockpot meals. I always do that with the food bc dinner is such a waste of time anyway. And you can trigger ser…
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It's all a matter of knowing the test and the writers. so much truth
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Hey @AChris1210. @"Wind-Up Bird" makes a good point. Getting a bad score and having to retake anyway is gonna sting. Just picture waking up and signing into LSAC.org to see that turd after you've been biting your nails for a month in anticipation. Y…
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Hey @Thoughtful, sorry that didn't help. The main point was that the negation you referred to had a larger scope than just the '~M'. As you said, '~(~M)' is just 'M', but notice the scope of the negation only encompasses '~M'. In the example you c…
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Well done! Everyone says the games were tough. Can you give us your evaluation? What was the difficulty? How "weird" we're they, really?
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Hey @Thoughtful, I assume you're talking about '~(~M -> '. If so, notice that the negation is outside the parentheses, acting on the truth value of the whole sentence '(~M -> '. The truth value of that sentence is determined by the conditional…
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@"Creasey LSAT" Absolutely agree. It's important to quickly strike 1-3 choices without agonizing over unseen relationships. I'm not recommending that. My point is simply to ask How do you know that an answer choice is irrelevant? My friend's probl…
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With all respect for JY and the makers of the 7sage curriculum, I was disappointed by the frequent resort to "irrelevant!" as a reasoned dismissal of an answer choice. I've watched a close friend derive zero benefit from those demonstrations, and I'…
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Hello. I'm going to give you the snobby reaction, but I don't want you to sense any malice on my part. I wish you good luck with your test/applications. It's not easy to do all this and put yourself on display for judgment by strangers with power ov…
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Just think what it means to say not all swans are white. It means not all swans can be white. Means some swan gotta be not-white. Not (All As) (are Bs) (Some As) not (are Bs) The 'not' changes the quantifier and drops through to the rest of the …
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"Use a dash to set off an abrupt break or interruption and to announce a long appositive or summary." -Oliver Strunk An apposite clause is relevant but not essential to the sentence. Look at the clause beginning with "whose" below. (1) Show me t…
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Def not qualified to give an opinion on this, but subjectively anything more than a passing and somehow relevant mention of hardships sounds like a sob story. I can even imagine being disgusted if, by chance, I had just listened to news about Aleppo…
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Think of modality as the mode of presentation of a proposition. Where the modality is noteworthy, it affects the logical properties of the proposition so that you can't infer what you would normally be able to infer from it. One logical property co…
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I quite enjoyed your story, and I think it will be encouraging to many folks around here struggling with RC. Gotta say, though, I'm a big reader and I always play what I'm reading like a monologue in my head. It's probably not far off a spoken pace.…
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Binghamton's comments x2 with some minor niceties. The negation of 'most', e.g. in (1) ~(most A are would amount to (2) most A are not B That means >50% of As are not-Bs. By the same token, the Bs among the As must be
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autodidacts man
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Actually considering that myself. GMAT does look easier if you have a strong quantitative background, so that's comforting to hear. Dang @potatocowpower, those scores are def my best case hopes, so you're looking good from my pov. Curious, what's yo…
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Hey @"Tina Cho" Too many factors to know that with confidence. Some ppl plateau, it's true. From what I've seen so far, I think that has little to do with intelligence and a lot to do with literacy and preparation. That means you can learn your wa…
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The 70s sound fun man
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Be very careful what you put in your body before the test. Lots of things cause slight brain fog, which is enough to ruin your test performance. I recently stopped Zyrtec and Zzzquil for this reason. Two weeks later, my average score is 5+ points up…
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Maybe take a few and do a full analysis with notes before you hit the questions. What's the purpose? What's the layout? What does each paragraph do? What's the main point and supporting argument? What's the concrete detail? What does the word choice…
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I've noticed that too, drilling in LG. It actually gives me some relief bc it seems more likely that I'm getting them right and LSAC is just trolling me than that my wrong answers all happen to line up like that. Just drawing 1 in 5 letters at rando…
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@quinnxzhang MacFarlane -- I think his paper on formality is great Is this the paper you're referring to? http://fitelson.org/probability/macfarlane.pdf It looks solid, man. I haven't seen a lot of literature on the demarcation problem in logic. I …
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implementing a skipping strategy I've been chatty lately, but I want to second this. If for some reason you have a brain fart and a question is holding you up, mark it and come back later. Get good at deciding whether it's gonna work out with a que…
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And I'm sitting it this December, wish me luck! Done! As controversial as Naming and Necessity is, I think it gets a lot of things right I can't not take a stance. I'm partial to Searle's cluster descriptivism, as briefly laid out in Proper Names, a…
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@"Rigid Designator" Cheers! And welcome. I suppose this isn't the place to start a fight about PWS. You're lucky bc I would designate your a** to the next possible world, sonnn. Srsly though, good to see you here. You will enjoy the LSAT.
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@"Rigid Designator" are you a Phil major or is it just a hobby?
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Jeece, busy thread. @nessa.k13.0 Remember that '(A -> ' is equivalent to '(~A or ', so the '~(A -> ' is the same as '~(~A or ', which begets '(A and ~B)'. Plugging '~M' and 'B' in for those schematics gets us from '~(~M -> ' to '~(~~M o…
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Hey @nessa.k13.0 Cool stuff you're putting out there. I wish more people had interests like yours. 'Just gonna go ahead and hit these prompts. First, I couldn't agree more with your thoughts on the biconditional: B and M are both not going to be …
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Hm that's interesting. The contrapositive of your schema: (~M & ~B) -> ~P But your vernacular feels more like a biconditional to me: P->(M~B) 'Reason being it seems to assert that, indeed, Mike WILL be there in the abscence of the bi…