Sufficient & Necessary Questions - - Question 44

People who have never been asked to do more than they can easily do are people who never do all they can. Alex is som...

pefriedrichs May 23, 2020

Is it wrong to add additional premises?

When diagramming this question I created two premises and a conclusion, but my second premise and my conclusion formed a transitive relationship that created the flawed reasoning with the reversal. 1. NADM --> NDAC 2. NDAC--> Alex 3. Alex--> NADM For the second premise I used the Suff. and Nec. rule for "who" and read it as: "Alex is someone (nec.) who has clearly never done all he can (suff.)". 2 and 3 form NDAC-->NADM, so I eventually formed the chain correctly, but I'm wondering if in situations like this certain pronouns from the passage can be overlooked to save time?

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DalilaPando August 11, 2020

What is the correct answer?