Which one of the following statements most accurately characterizes a difference between the two passages?

cannedfun on February 23, 2023

Are : (Could be true/ Could be false/Not necessarily false/not necessarily true) logically equivalent?

Please help me understand my flaw in reason or if it is a pointless distinction. I have added my idea onto the end based on last slide if we're converting to true: Which one of the following statements can be false? C: Not nec true + (could be true) IC: Must be True Which one of the following must be false? C: cannot be true IC: could be true + (Not nec true ) Each of the following could be false EXCEPT: C: Must be true IC: Not nec true + (could be true) All of the following statements must be false EXCEPT: C: could be true + (Not nec true) IC: cannot be true

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Emil-Kunkin on March 1, 2023

Hi, I'm not sure I'm understanding your questions here. Are you asking which statements put together make another statement?

cannedfun on March 1, 2023

Hey Emil. Sorry this question got improperly tagged. I was still new to this website and drooling on my keyboard. It's from the logical reason video section with the yin-yang slides at the end.

Take for example: Student A could have red hair and Student A does not necessarily have red hair.
Are these logically the same meaning?
I just wanted to check going forward that it would be impossible to see two question choices like this together and have one of them still be right.

Emil-Kunkin on March 7, 2023

Ah I see now, my apologies! I think your understanding of what would be correct and what would be incorrect is spot on from your original question. These can be a bit tricky when they are abstract, when when seeing them in real questions, it usually feels a bit more intuitive.