Transitive Property

Started by 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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  1. 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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