Only if the electorate is moral and intelligent will a democracy function well.
Sherry-YoungMarch 5, 2022
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Why wouldn't it be M & I -> DFW. It says, only if there are morals and intelligence will a democracy to function well. I don't understand how you get to DFW without M &I first.
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Our statement reads as "only if M and I will there be a WFD." Only if introduces a necessary condition- this statement is the same as saying that without a M and I electorate, there will not be a WFD. This means that if there is a WFD, there must have been an M and I, which is a necessary condition for a WDF.
We could diagram this as
If WFD -> M&I
and the contrapositive as
If no M&I -> no WDF.
Only if statements are tricky, but they always introduce a necessary condition.
