Sufficient & Necessary Questions - - Question 26

If a country's manufacturing capacity is fully utilized, there can be no industrial growth without new capital invest...

sharpen7 March 5, 2018

No rule not applied in this example

Why in this example was the no rule ignored? I thought we were taught that when you see the word no you should negate the necessary. So in this case NCI should have been negated - why was it not?

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rweyer April 22, 2018

because of the word without. Without introduces a necessary condition, the other part of the sentence is negated. When you have 2 negatives it creates a positive. That is why it wasn't negated

Anita April 22, 2018

"No IG without NCI" can be thought of as "there can only be IG with NCI," if that helps. NCI is necessary for IG.

Then the next sentence says RIR produces NCI.

It then follows that RIR, producing NCI, could satisfy a condition for IG.

Does that help?