hi. How can I diagramm this complex statement

[lathlee]

I thought about diagramm this complex conditional reasoning but just want to the know the correct answer. This is what I got from reading a news story. : The only way I can see Kelly putting out the Tax returns is if they are the only thing that can prove his lack of culpability in the vanilla ice cream scandal.

[lathlee]

Hi. I am a Christian who starts my mornig with reading bible quotes and te avid tennis fan
Today, i found some Quotes loaded with conditional reasoning but didnt know how to make a conditional relationship diagramms
But as i do my pracrice prior lsat prep exams, i got bb
Hindered by similar statements with such conditional relationships. So i would like to learn and improve:

1st corinthian chapter 2nd 8None of the rulers of this ageunderstood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 

1st corithian ch 2 verse 12 In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

Chapter 3 verse 7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow

11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Tennis:
Djokovic was not the only injured player on court today.

[lathlee]

Another one I found today. "'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure." - Tommy Lasorda ...

Is it Pressure thinking Failure thinking
Even though indicator because is there

[lathlee]

Btw is it okay to diagram the statement in following? or is there even conditional relationship even exist

"Anything is better than dying"

Thing better D (Dying)

[Adam Tyson]

Hey lathlee, sorry to take so long to get back to you on this thread. While there is conditional reasoning all around us, every day, in ordinary conversations and the books and articles we read, I would caution you against seeking to always put these claims into diagrams like you would on the LSAT. The LSAT is a very carefully crafted test, and the use of language in it is very particular, designed as it is to test our use of logical reasoning.

While we might be able to take some of those statements from outside the LSAT and convert them into conditional diagrams, we would run a great risk of causing more confusion than clarity, because these statements frequently do not resemble the kinds of claims found on the test, which have been carefully crafted and vetted by skilled logicians. It's great that you are expanding your practice to try to always be thinking about logic all around you, so that you are building your LSAT muscles even when you are not looking at your study materials. However, when it comes to dissecting actual conditional reasoning, it would be best to limit yourself to the text of official, licensed questions and the drills you'll find in your study materials that are based in large part on the same sorts of statements found in those official questions. That way, you won't waste time and effort on diagramming statement that are unlike those you really need to be working on, and you won't cause yourself unwanted confusion in the process.

We often get questions from students about unofficial, simulated LSAT questions written by some other test prep companies that are meant to supplement the official questions. Those questions are often, frankly, lousy, in that they are not well written to the standards that LSAC demands of their materials. We consistently (politely) refuse to answer those questions, because we think students should stay far, far away from them due to their lack of rigor and their general uselessness. While your questions are not based on those unofficial, simulated LSAT materials, the idea remains the same - it would probably be best if we left them out of our analysis in this forum.

There are plenty of official questions out there that are worth studying, so limit yourself to those for the bulk of your studies and for this forum. However, DO keep on looking for conditional reasoning, causal arguments, formal logic, arguments by analogy, flaws in the reasoning, and more in everything that you read and hear around you! Building that habit of analyzing logic, all the time, will do you well on this test and as a law student and, ultimately, as a lawyer.

Thanks for your patience. Keep up the good work!