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wanderlust

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Necessary condition indicators? Or not?

Post by wanderlust » Mon May 21, 2012 9:18 am

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Kaplan says the above two are necessary condition indicators. I'm so confused. Aren't both causal indicators?

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Re: Necessary condition indicators? Or not?

Post by shifty_eyed » Mon May 21, 2012 11:54 am

If I recall correctly, causal reasoning is a subset of conditional reasoning, so the two aren't mutually exclusive. However, I wouldn't get to hung up about memorizing lists of necessary and sufficient condition indicators because the LSAT is so tricky with its wording that you can't rely on lists alone.

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Re: Necessary condition indicators? Or not?

Post by dowu » Mon May 21, 2012 12:58 pm

:shock: :shock:

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