Logical Reasoning

PT154 · S1 · Q23 Inventor: All highly successful

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Inventor: All highly successful entrepreneurs have as their main desire the wish to leave a mark on the world.

Statements

conditional = "all" (LEFT side)

Highly successful → main desire leave mark entrepreneur

conditional = "whenever" (LEFT side)

Highly successful implement entrepreneur sees → that solution to problem solution

conditional = "all" (LEFT side)

~Highly successful → don't always have entrepreneur motivation to implement ideas

Evaluate

When we're given multiple conditionals, we want to see if they chain together. Is there any overlapping idea?

Sort of ... highly successful entrepreneurs (or people who aren't) show up in all three conditionals.

It might be easier to think of this in a Comparison way:

Highly Succ E's Not Highly Succ E's

main desire ? ? leave mark on world

see solution? see solution? implement it. might not be motivated enough to implement it

Goal

Pick something we can derive from this comparison or from these conditionals.

23.

If the inventor's statements are true, which one of the following must also be true?

  1. Most people do not want

    Too Specific: most people

    We don't have any information in the passage about what's true of 51% or more of people, so I would stop reading this after the first two words. There's no way to relate "most people" to whether or not they're a highly successful entrepreneur, because we aren't told what proportion of the population is or isn't a highly successful entrepreneur.

    11% picked this

  2. All people who invariably implement

    Unsupported Relationship

    Do we know anything about all people who invariably implement their solutions? Yes, those people are highly successful entrepreneurs (this might feel like it's reading backwards, but since we were told that highly successful entrepreneur's are unique in this capacity, we know that everyone else doesn't do it)

    4% picked this

  3. Correct

    The main desire of all

    Why this is right

    Do we know anything about all people who implement solutions whenever they detect them? Yes, those people are highly successful entrepreneurs (this might feel like it's reading backwards, but since we were told that highly successful entrepreneur's are unique in this capacity, we know that everyone else doesn't do it) Do we know whether the main desire of all highly successful entrepreneurs is to leave a mark on the world? Yes! The first sentence told us that. If you're determined to diagram your way to the answer, then the important part of the stimulus would have been the unique, which made a bi-conditional of the second rule. highly successful entrepreneur ? always implement solution as well as always implement solution ? highly successful entrepreneur. Since we also knew that highly successful entrepreneur ? main desire is leave mark We could chain those together and get: always highly main desire implement ? successful ? leave mark solution entrepreneur on world

    Skill tested: Must be True · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

    59% picked this

  4. Generally, highly successful entrepreneurs’ interests

    Out of Scope: negative impact

    This might seem like a reasonable speculation, but all we know about highly successful entrepreneurs is that WHEN / IF they see a solution, they always implement it. This answer is talking about whether their ability to see a solution is sometimes impaired. It might be. That's perfectly compatible with the passage. When Elon Musk goes to his private island for a Ski-ball tournament with Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, this leisure time might compromise their ability to see solutions to problems. However, IF they eventually see a solution, they will all be sure to implement it.

    20% picked this

  5. All people whose main desire

    Out of Scope

    Out of Scope: actually leaving a mark We only talked about a desire to leave a mark on the world. We have no information about people actually leaving a mark on the world.

    6% picked this

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