I feel pretty comfortable overall with diagramming suff & nec conditions in formal logic. But I am still a bit unclear on how the chain works from "most" to "some" I know that "some" is a double arrow and "most" is not...but I'm not sure I always know when it's supposed to change to "some" when I'm combining statements and making inferences or providing missing premises.
Is there any resource I can visit for more clarity / instruction on this?
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@kayanamcobb we do not use arrows to diagram quantifiers (i.e. some or most) because these concepts are very different from Sufficient & Necessary conditions.
"Some" statements and "most" statements are reversible with the only caveat being that "most" becomes "some" when you reverse it.
So for example:
A-some-B can be reversed to B-some-A.
A-most-B can also be reversed to B-some-A.
Hope this makes sense!
For a more in-depth discussion of these concepts, please watch our video lesson on Quantifiers.
