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June 2007 free preptest lr section #23 Morally right
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 6:18 pm
by ltowns1
I have a quick question about this, is the conclusion for this question considered a conditional statement?
Re: June 2007 free preptest lr section #23 Morally right
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 11:17 pm
by Christine (MLSAT)
Sure is!
This is a a classic example of a sufficient assumption question with conditional premises and a conditional conclusion.
While a lot of conditionals will have a clear indicator like "if" or "unless" or "always", somethings just a simple statement with an 'is' or 'are' can be thought of as a conditional too! Pizza is tasty could be diagrammed pizza --> tasty. There are a ton of sentences that could be diagrammed as conditionals if we really tried, but it's not always useful. Here, it's definitely useful, since the premises are both conditionals.
Re: June 2007 free preptest lr section #23 Morally right
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 11:50 pm
by ltowns1
Christine (MLSAT) wrote:Sure is!
This is a a classic example of a sufficient assumption question with conditional premises and a conditional conclusion.
While a lot of conditionals will have a clear indicator like "if" or "unless" or "always", somethings just a simple statement with an 'is' or 'are' can be thought of as a conditional too! Pizza is tasty could be diagrammed pizza --> tasty. There are a ton of sentences that could be diagrammed as conditionals if we really tried, but it's not always useful. Here, it's definitely useful, since the premises are both conditionals.
Thanks Christine, could you help me on my other thread too if you get a chance. It's about pretest 21 section 3 #8