r/TheLoophole

I am trying to understand possibility indicators as described in Chapter 3. But the logic doesn't feel intuitive to me, or adjacent to how I'd use the words in real life. I've constructed my own example, but can someone help correct my logic if it's incorrect?

What I've gathered is that if you have a premise set and a conclusion, the conclusion is valid if in every universe you construct, the premises are true and the conclusion is true. Here's an example premise + conclusion I made:

>Psycholinguists, at Harvard University, an institution regarded for its great prestige and rigor in language studies, found that people are far more likely to understand the phrase 'not necessarily false' less intuitively than 'could be true' despite their equivalence. It's possible most readers of this will be more confused about the former than the latter of those two phrases themselves.

At first glance, I thought the conclusion was valid (and so does ChatGPT). But then I thought what if those reading this are logicians, or LSAT experts, or linguists themselves, or some other self selected group of people. Then it'd be certain that most of them aren't confused by not necessarily false. So in that case would I conclude the conclusion isn't valid since there's a reasonable universe where the premises are true but the conclusion about possibility is not? Am I thinking about this the correct way?

Sorry for the long text. Thank you!

I've been seeing big improvements in my overall score, my past 5 sections have been hovering around -2/3, but today I spiked to -6 and the common theme with all my wrong answers has been conditional reasoning and causal reasoning specifically on the level 4 and 5 questions.

Are there any recommendations for what to do to target these weaknesses? I've been implementing translation when necessary and my CLIR has become intuitive, but this has just been a roadblock I've had since starting my LR journey

I've just finished chapter 6 on causation. I read a while back—in the basic translation section—that I should be doing that drill. I did the two in the book, but haven't done any more. I am confused because every chapter is currently teaching me something new, and I'm not sure whether it's enough just to go through the book right now and do the drills/quizzes at the end of each chapter, or whether I should be doing the basic translation drill alongside my textbook reading on real sections?

My timing for the BT drill is very slow. So it definitely needs work eventually, I just want to know if (1) I should be doing it alongside the textbook reading and (2) how I should be doing it. In the book it said to write down what you remember, but on reddit I've seen people say you should be saying it out loud and recording yourself instead.

I'm also wondering how quickly I should be working through this textbook, and how do I make sure the concepts from it stick. I'm consistently getting all of the drills at the end of each section correct, but I wonder whether it's really sticking in my brain without actual practice, as right now I'm not doing any kind of drilling outside of what's in the book!

Just looking for some guidance on this, and please give me a sample day and week if you could have practice with the textbook and the drills (if applicable). Thank you so much :) I overthink this way too much

I'm doing translation + CLIR for a week now. Stuck at ~55min/section. I work full time so only have time to do 1 section a day bcs of my slowness - after the exercise it will take me ~1h to go through CLIR keys and understand the questions I CLIRed wrong ...... Feeling hopeless and unsure if I will ever be able to hit the 20min mark :(

I got the book about 3 weeks ago, Im starting to study the LSAT and a friend of mine who took the test recommended it to me.

I just finished chapter 3 and I am now on the drill ater that called basic translation drill on page 95

Throughout my time reading it so far, I don't know if its because I am reading it too slow or if I am stupid but this books as made me feel extemely dumb. I am getting alot of the drill questions wrong and I am having to go back to figure out what I did wrong and I thought at the time I was just new to alot of concepts so I made a wrong answer journel and have been putting eveything I put wrong in there.

As soon as I got to the drills after chapter 3 I feel as if I am just too stupid to get things right, I am trying to translate like the book says but I keep misremembering details or not translating everything like the answer key does. I really want to do better and translate the stimulus better but I don't know how to improve or if there is something I missed.

I read the stimulus

Cover the entire stiumus with my hand

Do my best to translate without looking

I feel like I am missing something, I have not gone past question 10 on the drill. I am unsure if I was supposed to do this in one sitting or not. I don't know if I am going through this book inncorectly, I try to tackle the book everyday to try to see what I am doing wrong.

Sorry if the post seems like scattered thoughts, I am extremly frustated that I may not be understanding something, I really want to learn and continue on but I don't know what I should be doing to understand how to translate the stimulus correctly.

I don't think it's the book's fault but I really need some help understanding how I can approach the translation drill or the book in general.

"Only if the compact of jars grows musical will we have discord in the spheres."

Isn't this an "if and only if" statement, meaning there should be a double must arrow? Answer key shows only a must arrow. Does the "if and" in "if and only if" really mean something different than "only if?" 😭🫪

Edit: and upon reading it again...isn't "we will have discord in the spheres" the necessary condition? Shouldn't it be:

CJM --> DS

I think I'm losing my mind.