S&N Diagramming
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Anna20
· started 2020-08-12 19:42
· last activity 2020-08-13 00:35
· 1 reply
Grateful if you could please let me know if the below is okay - I feel like the below went a bit off-piste.
not NBG --> RIA
RIA --> IEL
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not NBG --> RIA --> IEL
I can see why the correct answer is D, because the premise tells us you can only get IEL by gaining an intuitive grasp of everyday life - but that's not clear from my diagram?
Thanks so much!
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Ravi
· 2020-08-13 00:35
@Anna2020,
We have the conclusion at the beginning:
In academia-->can't become a great novelist
The support for this is the second part of the last sentence:
Academic-->not immersed in daily life
Not immersed in daily life-->don't grasp emotions of daily life (this is the contrapositive of grasp emotions of daily life-->immersed in daily life)
So our premises come together to form
Academic-->not immersed in daily life-->don't grasp emotions of daily life
Notice, though, there's a gap here between the second premise and the conclusion. We don't have a connection between not grasping the emotions of daily life and not being a great novelist, so the necessary premise is that if you don't grasp the emotions of daily life, you can't be a great novelist.
Take a look at my diagram and let me know if you have any other questions!
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