Normal full-term babies are all born with certain instinctive reflexes that disappear by the age of two months. Becau...

Vanessa-Ratcliff October 8, 2019

Oh, and also, is "because" a sufficient or necessary indicator?

Vanessa-Ratcliff October 8, 2019

Sorry, wrong question

Irina October 8, 2019

@Vanessa-Ratcliff,

It is important to look at the indicator in the context of the overall sentence. In this case, we could rearrange the sentence to say 'all normal full terms babies are born with certain reflexes," so even though the sentence is written as "all born," all is still a sufficient indicator for "all babies." "Because" is not a conditional indicator. In this case, it simply tells us that "exhibits reflects" is true, hence we can conclude that "a normal full-term baby" is false. The basic structure of the argument is:

A -> B
~B
Therefore, ~A

hectorg December 27, 2019

yes i was confused tooi diagrammed all reflexes as the sufficient condition