LG rule, unsure what it means. Help? Forum

[CurlyKat]

Hi there, does anyone have the PT 32 game 3? I was just working on it and I keep getting stuff wrong, I think I'm not understanding two of the rules correctly.. one of them is: 'at least one composition is performed either after O and before S, or after S and before O.' I took this to mean O/S_S/O, but I think that's wrong. Does it mean something else? Like that S cannot be first or O cannot be last, and/or the other way around??? I haven't seen any rules like that yet.

[FuManChusco]

LG rule, unsure what it means. Help?

June takers are totally going to be misled by that title.

edit: also to help you out, I think you're understanding it correctly. It has to be either O_S or S_O. that space in the middle has to be "at least" one, so it could technically be more spaces between O and S. Basically O and S cannot be touching. I hope that makes sense.

[citrustang]

"At least one" means there could be more than one space between S and O, but they cannot be consecutive.

[LSAT Blog]

It means that O and S cannot be consecutive.

The way you diagrammed it implies that there is exactly one space between them.

It'd be better to diagram in a way that makes it clear that there could be more than one space between them.

Here's how I'd do it.

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[Bert]

'at least one composition is performed either after O and before S, or after S and before O.'


should be diagrammed more like: O/S ... __ S/O. It seems from your diagram that you may be missing the at least part of the rule and going with "one composition is performed..." but maybe I am just misreading your diagram.

What was the other rule?

[scruffs mcguff]

I remember this rule threw me off too.

I think the other rule ends up saying that two items have to have at least two between them.

They cannot be (for example) A _ B or B _ A

[CurlyKat]

Gosh do I feel like an idiot now!!
I totally see it now! Thank you all so much! I hate getting stuck on stupid mistakes like this one, such a waste of time!
Thanks again guys!

[CurlyKat]

And yes, the other rule was that there are at least two spaces between two of the other variables. It all makes sense now.. the sun is shining again

[citrustang]

Glad it makes sense now!

[stintez]

It means that O and S cannot be consecutive.

The way you diagrammed it implies that there is exactly one space between them.

It'd be better to diagram in a way that makes it clear that there could be more than one space between them.

Here's how I'd do it.

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