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"ensure" - sufficient or necessary?
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 1:02 pm
by glitterfyme
does the word "ensure" indicate sufficient or necessary conditions??
thanks!

Re: "ensure" - sufficient or necessary?
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 1:12 pm
by Manhattan LSAT Noah
glitterfyme wrote:does the word "ensure" indicate sufficient or necessary conditions??
thanks!

Somber example that should help you see it:
Jumping in front of a train ensures death.
Which is it:
death --> jumping in front of train
jumping in front of train --> death
Get it?
Re: "ensure" - sufficient or necessary?
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:38 pm
by ExcelBaller
Necessary because it guarantees something happens.
Re: "ensure" - sufficient or necessary?
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:27 pm
by rglifberg
yep.
just because you are dead does not mean you jumped from a train like in death---> train
but if you jump from a train that means you are dead as in train--->death