Thanks for the question! So “some X are Y” should be understood as “there is at least one X that is also a Y.” It’s a little bit different from what it means intuitively in real life. If, on the LSAT, you get a statement that says something like
“Some chairs are made of wood.”
That means that there is at least one chair made of wood. But it could just be one. We diagram “some X are Y” as
X <—some—> Y
so our example above would be
Chairs <—some—> Made of wood
And these are reversible statements. So the first one could also be written
Y <—some—> X
And our example
Made of wood <—some—> Chairs
Which can be translated into English as “some things made of wood are chairs.” Which is true, since there’s at least one wooden chair.
Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.
