#23 - Inventor: All highly successful entrepreneurs have as

[Robert Carroll]

Henry Z,

You got those examples from the top of this page of the thread, where Rachael points out that they are biconditionals.

I would always look at context for any indicator word. "Unique" could be an indicator of many things or nothing, depending on the circumstances. So, when it looks as if it might be a conditional indicator, think about whether it's introducing a necessary condition, a sufficient condition, or both (the biconditional situation of this stimulus). Conditional indicators don't substitute for thought - indicators trigger the idea that you should think more about the possible conditionality, but to actually reduce the statements to a diagram, you have to think about what conditional relationship is actually logically equivalent to the English statements in the thing you're diagramming. No different here - as you point out, "unique" could have different roles in different situations. What role it has in any particular situation has to be thought out.

Robert Carroll

[supjeremyklein]

breakdown:
p1: super successful ppl ---> leave mark
p2: implement solution ---> only super successful
combined: implement solution ---> only super successful ---> leave mark

(c) implement solution ---> leave mark

analogy:
p1: all dogs have a burning desire to eat human food
p2: dogs are unique in that when they see trash they get excited
p3: all other animals see trash but are too busy bathing themselves

p2 (rephrased): only dogs get excited when they see trash

p1 (diagrammed): all dogs ---> want human food
p2 (diagrammed): excited over trash ---> only dogs
p1 & 2 (linked): excited over trash ---> all dogs ---> want human food

[ealanclos]

Hello,

after reading the explanations above, I'm a little bit confused as to why the statement "highly successful entrepreneurs are unique in that whenever they see a solution to a problem, they implement that idea" yields a biconditional statement. Is it because you can translate "unique" into "only", and then combined with "whenever" you have both a sufficient and a necessary indicator?

Thanks!

[Rachael Wilkenfeld]

Exactly, ealanclos. By saying they are unique, we are saying they are the only ones who implement a solution whenever they see a solution to a problem. There is both a sufficient and necessary indicator that applies, so it's a biconditional relationship.

Biconditional relationships are fairly rare on the test, but they are a bit easier to work with than a standard conditional statement.

Hope that helps!

[emilyjmyer]

Exactly, ealanclos. By saying they are unique, we are saying they are the only ones who implement a solution whenever they see a solution to a problem. There is both a sufficient and necessary indicator that applies, so it's a biconditional relationship.

Biconditional relationships are fairly rare on the test, but they are a bit easier to work with than a standard conditional statement.

Hope that helps!

Is unique a biconditional indictor or is it a biconditional indicator in the case because it is combined with whenever?

[Adam Tyson]

The latter, Emily - it's biconditional in this case because of the combination with "whenever."