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mstabilejOctober 18, 2024
Instruction Video Applied
Prior to beginning questions in the "Principle" section, I reviewed my notes from the instruction video. My notes basically provided a two-step method for solving principle questions:
1. Diagram the principle and its contrapositive
2. Select the answer choice that concludes the necessary condition of the argument or the contrapositive (because any answer that concludes the sufficient condition of either the argument or the contrapositive is wrong.)
I'm having difficulty understanding how this two-step method from my notes can be applied to this question because it appears as though there really is nothing to diagram. Is this correct, and if so, what is the step-by-step stratagey for solving this type of principle question?
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I think that the method in the video only applies to the "principle must be true" type of questions. In general most principle questions (ballpark 2/3) are asking us to use a principle to strengthen an argument given in the passage. A good chunk (1/4) are effectively must be true questions, where we are given a principle and then asked to find the answer choice that would be the application of that principle. The remainder are other types, which is what we have here. I would say this is most like a parallel reasoning question: we are asked to find a principle which seems to animate the logic in the passage.
