Transitive Property
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smalone30
· started 2020-06-11 01:45
· last activity 2020-07-05 06:21
· 1 reply
In the explanation on the video for A., why can’t you get increase EN from TW? It looks like there’s a valid chain TW—>WKCAW—>TS—>TT—>increase in EN
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Brett-Lindsay
· 2020-07-05 06:21
I see two problems with A:
1) The whole passage restricts the novels to cities the reviewer knows well. No other novels are mentioned. A talks about "any novel," which could include novels NOT in cities the reviewer knows well.
2) As Shun in another thread mentioned, novels are further restricted with the word "good":
"This trust increases my enjoyment of a GOOD novel"
Answer A says "ANY novel," which is far too broad for "a good novel"
3) The use of the word "virtually."
While I haven't begun the quantifiers lesson, I do know that in everyday life, "virtually" is a synonym for "almost," so "virtually any novel" would be similar to "most novels," which fails the S/N test. I'd diagram it as follows:
E --some-- TN (Book review enjoys novels --most-- trusted novelists)
There aren't any quantifiers in the stimulus, so I don't think we can introduce one in the answer choice.
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