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May-Salah December 27, 2020

wording and the diagram

i was looking at the diagram in the answers and i have a question regarding the wordings the diagram states- "they all consider salary an important factor." P2: UG ==> SIF not SIF ==> not UG" # MY QUESTION all introduces sufficient in a S&N statement, therefore "SIF" should be the sufficient although in the diagram presented its the Necessary, why is that? the diagram also states- "Further, whereas the only workers who consider stress level an important factor in choosing a job are a few veteran employees," P3: VE-some-SLIF SLIF-some-VE" # MY QUESTION "the only" introduces a S&N statement, however this statement was treated as a quantifier rather than S&N where SLIF is the sufficient and VE is the necessary, i dont understand the rule here and why its a quantifier? thank you.

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shunhe January 6, 2021

Hi @May-Salah,

Thanks for the question! So as to your first point, the word “all” does introduce the sufficient in an S&N statement. But here, there’s an implied noun. Is the sentence saying “all the salaries”? No, it means “all [the undergraduate students] consider salary an important factor.” So that’s why we diagram it UG —> SIF.

As for the second question you had, the reason we make this a quantifier is because “the only workers” refers to “a few veteran employees,” which is really “some veteran employees.”

Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.

May-Salah January 25, 2021

very helpful indeed, i see my mistake perfect with the first one, however with the second question of mine, i am still unsure about.
the way my mind worked when i saw that question was to turn it into a sentence, as in
SLIF => VE
-VE => -SLIF
so with the wording it would translate to
"if you think that the stress level is important, then you must be a veteran" also, "if you are not a veteran, then you do not think that stress level is important"
and i think that these statements make perfect sense and support the phrase as it was written in the passage, as "Further, whereas the only workers who consider stress level an important factor in choosing a job are a few veteran employees,"
looking at this quote from the passage, you can infer that out of all the workers, only the vets value stress level, in other words, if you are not a vet then you dont think stress level is important.

the reason why i am fixating on this is because i attempted to do the question a few days after i read your reply to me, in hopes that i would get it right the when i do since i learned a new rule, however every time i attempt to solve this question, i still solve this part as a S&N rather than a quantifier. my question is if there is a way for me to think quantifiers when the passage is trying to "trick" me to think S&N?

Ashley123 August 12, 2021

This one is a little confusing for me with the use of only and few. It seems like it wants us to use a suff. and nec. statement. Is it actually trying to say, "Only a few veteran employees consider stress level"? If we are making it a quantifier then wouldn't it be "VE-some-SL" and "VE-most-Not SL"? I'm wondering this because I interpret it as a quantifier to mean only a few do this but most don't. Can you please clarify? Also, it would be great if we could get a video for this one. Thank you!