Politician: Unless our nation redistributes wealth, we will be unable to alleviate economic injustice and our curren...
allisonfarleyOctober 12, 2020
Unless
I started my diagram of the first sentence assuming that "unless" introduced the necessary (redistribute wealth) and made the second part of the sentence sufficient and negated it.
I see in the correct answer explanation that it was not diagramed as an "unless" condition. Am I misunderstanding the format of the sentence? Do the rules for "unless" only apply if the word pops up in the middle of the sentence?
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I ran into the same issue. Did you get a response from LSATmax?
ohanamgtDecember 25, 2020
I diagrammed it as an unless where what follows unless is the necessary condition and the other variable (variables in this case) is the sufficient condition and negated. So I got able to:
alleviate economic injustices and have economic inequities ------> rw
MollyJanuary 5, 2021
^^ is this the correct way to do it?I ran into this issue as well
AnamariaRMay 23, 2021
Is there any clarification on this?
Berenice_14March 20, 2022
I ran into the same issue as well!! I diagrammed it as an "unless"
Emil-KunkinMarch 20, 2022
This is a tough one to diagram, and might be considered an 'edge case" where we would want to diagram our understanding of the first sentence as a whole rather than taking it clause by clause. The sentence is structured as unless we do x we will fail to do y which in turn will lead to z.
I would take this to mean that if we fail to redistribute, we will not fix injustice, which will lead to intolerable inequality. We could diagram as
If not R then not FI then II. With the contrapositive of
If not II then Fi thus R.
Regardless of our understanding of the unless condition, we know that failing to redistribute will mean failing to fix injustice and thus leading to intolerable inequality. To get to this, I basically replaced the "unlesses" with "if we do not."
