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Kemp November 9, 2022

Question 32

Can you explain how in the directions when it says, "if the above statements are to be treated as true what argument best follows", why we can not treat the sufficient and necessary as both being true? I am failing to grasp why we cannot conclude that the sufficient condition of a conditional is true. Any explanation on this would be greatly beneficial to me.

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Emil-Kunkin November 12, 2022

Hi, a conditional is a rule. To assume a rule is in place means that we have to follow that rule, so, for example, we could assume that if you are president, you are over 35. To assume that rule is true does not mean you are the president. To treat a conditional statement as true is not to assume the conditional happened. It is to assume the rule is in force.

Let me know if I'm making sense here. The "assuming the above is true" means that there is a conditional rule, not that the thing in the conditional rule happened. The "if" part of the conditional rule is key.