- Fri Apr 18, 2025 11:41 am
#112640
You could treat that latter statement as a nested conditional, like so:
Built Badly
[Robot
Think]
But why make it needlessly complex? It's so much simpler to think of it as just "if a robot is built badly, then it cannot think."
In theory, there could be a nested conditional with more than 3 elements. There have probably been more than a few on the LSAT. Something like:
When you ride a motorcycle, you must wear goggles or a face mask unless you have a full-face helmet or you just don't care whether you live or die.
My first thought when I see something like this isn't to create a complex nested diagram, although I might do so at some point. My first thought is that there's a lot going on, and I'd like to see the question before I take another step. Maybe I can prephrase it without a diagram, or maybe I only need a portion of the diagram? Don't make it harder than it has to be.
Built Badly


But why make it needlessly complex? It's so much simpler to think of it as just "if a robot is built badly, then it cannot think."
In theory, there could be a nested conditional with more than 3 elements. There have probably been more than a few on the LSAT. Something like:
When you ride a motorcycle, you must wear goggles or a face mask unless you have a full-face helmet or you just don't care whether you live or die.
My first thought when I see something like this isn't to create a complex nested diagram, although I might do so at some point. My first thought is that there's a lot going on, and I'd like to see the question before I take another step. Maybe I can prephrase it without a diagram, or maybe I only need a portion of the diagram? Don't make it harder than it has to be.
Adam M. Tyson
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