"-some-" indicates that some of one thing is another thing.
X-some-not D means that some Xs are not Ds. Since "some" statements are reversible, this also means that some not Ds are Xs, so this statement can also be written as not D-some-X.
Does this make sense? Let us know if you have any more questions!
subjectJuly 22, 2020
I'm so confused
shunheJuly 28, 2020
Hi @subject,
Thanks for the question! So we’re being asked about the logical connective “some,” which we can diagram as
A <—some—> B
which means that some As are Bs, and some Bs are As.
To make this more concrete, consider the following example: some chairs are wooden. This is a pretty intuitive English sentence, right? It means that out of the chairs that are out there, there’s at least one wooden one. On the LSAT, we interpret this a bit differently than in regular English, so “some” just means “at least one, possibly all.”
So we could diagram this
Chair <—some—> Wooden
And notice that there’s a double arrow. It goes both ways because if some chairs are wooden, that must also mean that some wooden things are chairs.
Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.
