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Hi Lathlee,
You have the basic idea down here I would encourage you to continue thinking about the way these statements work, especially in larger contexts when possible. In this case, statements that involve "never" will always create conditional relationships, so it should be no surprise to you that it occurred here. The better question is: why does it work that way?
It happens that way because absolutes always result in conditionals, and "never" is simply a negative absolute. So, any time you see "never," there is a conditional present. The question that follows that is: is it always important for the LSAT? The answer to that is No. Consider the following statements:
Thanks!
You have the basic idea down here I would encourage you to continue thinking about the way these statements work, especially in larger contexts when possible. In this case, statements that involve "never" will always create conditional relationships, so it should be no surprise to you that it occurred here. The better question is: why does it work that way?
It happens that way because absolutes always result in conditionals, and "never" is simply a negative absolute. So, any time you see "never," there is a conditional present. The question that follows that is: is it always important for the LSAT? The answer to that is No. Consider the following statements:
- 1. Lions and gazelles are never in the same group.
2. Companies that wish maintain goodwill never risk offending a customer.
3. There are some people in this class who have never eaten ice cream.
Diagrams below
- Diagrams
1. Lions and gazelles are never in the same group.
- The individual sub-diagrams are:
L G
G L
and those two combine to create a double-not arrow:
L G
2. Companies that wish maintain goodwill never risk offending a customer.
- CWMG ROC
3. There are some people in this class who have never eaten ice cream.
- There are various ways to represent this, and the most common one would use Formal Logic and hinge on the "some:"
People in Class Eaten Ice Cream
But of course I said it contained a conditional, and so I want to show you how that could appear:
People in ClassSome Eaten Ice Cream
- The individual sub-diagrams are:
Thanks!
Dave Killoran
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