Sufficient & Necessary Questions - - Question 12

Book Review:  When I read a novel set in a city I know well, I must see that the writer knows the city at least as we...

smalone30 June 11, 2020

Transitive Property

In the explanation on the video for A., why can’t you get increase EN from TW? It looks like there’s a valid chain TW—>WKCAW—>TS—>TT—>increase in EN

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Brett-Lindsay July 5, 2020

I see two problems with A:

1) The whole passage restricts the novels to cities the reviewer knows well. No other novels are mentioned. A talks about "any novel," which could include novels NOT in cities the reviewer knows well.

2) As Shun in another thread mentioned, novels are further restricted with the word "good":
"This trust increases my enjoyment of a GOOD novel"
Answer A says "ANY novel," which is far too broad for "a good novel"

3) The use of the word "virtually."
While I haven't begun the quantifiers lesson, I do know that in everyday life, "virtually" is a synonym for "almost," so "virtually any novel" would be similar to "most novels," which fails the S/N test. I'd diagram it as follows:
E --some-- TN (Book review enjoys novels --most-- trusted novelists)
There aren't any quantifiers in the stimulus, so I don't think we can introduce one in the answer choice.