Question #1022

Diagramming with Conflicting Terms

Started by Julia96 · started 2022-09-12 21:15 · last activity 2022-11-28 21:45 · 1 reply

"Nursing schools cannot attract a greater number of able applicants than they currently do unless the problems of low wages and high-stress working conditions in the nursing profession are solved." I've been stumbling a lot lately with this concept: How do I diagram a sentence when it has conflicting sufficient indicators--in this case these being "unless" and "cannot"? Do we draw the diagram based on which arrives first? When we have "unless", we pick one of the ideas, negate it, and make it the sufficient condition. With cannot, we treat it like no/none/etc., and pick one of the ideas, negate it, and make it the necessary condition. Which rule do I follow here? Are they the same? I have been seeing more and more of these and don't know how to approach when there are 2 sufficient indicators

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  1. Emil-Kunkin · 2022-11-28 21:45

    Hi, I would start by focusing on the core logic of the statement. There is a lot of fluff, but we can boil the first sentence down to "not more people unless solve problems" this is a way easier sentence to approach. We can take our unless and turn it into "if not" to give us "not more people if we do not solve these problems". This finally becomes If Not SP then Not more people

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