Every political philosopher of the early twentieth century who was either a socialist or a communist was influenced b...
JoyceJanuary 17, 2020
I thought Either Questions had to be negated
In the video lesson it stated that if it is an either/or statement, you must choose an x or y as the necessary and negate the other variable and make it the sufficient. In the video explanation they didn't do that. Are we not supposed to negate it anymore?
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Let's take a fresh look at this question. Here's how we diagram the stimulus:
1) Political philosopher and (socialist or communist) - >Influenced by Luxemburg
This statement could have also been written as
Political philosopher and socialist OR political philosopher and communist - >Influenced by Luxemburg
2) Influenced by Luxemburg - >Did not advocate a totalitarian state
I think you may have misunderstood the directions on either/or statements. In the first statement, which is an either/or statement, we have the term "every" appear to start the sentence. "Every" introduces the sufficient condition, so we know that everything that comes before the verb (which is "was") goes in the sufficient condition. The rest of the statement goes in the necessary condition.
We can combine the two statements together via the transitive property to get
Political philosopher and (socialist or communist) - >Influenced by Luxemburg - >Did not advocate a totalitarian state
I just watched the video, and Naz's diagramming was correct. Which video are you referring to? If you provide more info, I can look at that video to see what you're referring to. In the meantime, the video explaining this question is 100% correct, so you can feel confident in viewing it.
