L2003-6-3-15引发的逻辑问题

zindan · 发表于 2006-9-27 04:55:00

15. People who have doctorates in the liberal arts are interested in improving their intellects. Companies, however eaewly hire people who are not concerned with the financial gain that can be obtained by hard work in the business world. Asa result, companies rarely hire people who have doctorates in the liberal arts.

找assumption.

(C)The only people not interested in making money in the business world are people who are interested in improving their intellects.

(D) Only people not concerned with making money in the business world are interested in improving their intellects.

答案选D,但有一点题外话想问:Only A is B 与 The only A is B逻辑上有没有区别?

fredshen · 发表于 2006-9-27 06:26:00

Only A is B means A is exclusive to B. B->A

The only A is B means B is alone in the class of A. A->B

First only is adv

Second is adj.

Check dictionary for their differences.

Again, I am against mechanically categorize "only" and such as neccessary condition indicators as you can see why here.

fredshen · 发表于 2006-9-27 07:29:00

Actually, 2005-6-LR3-14 tests if one understands only. I bet ETS reads Power Score Logical bible.

14. Political scientist: The economies of a number of

European countries are currently in severe

difficulty. Germany is the only neighboring

country that has the resources to resuscitate these

economies. Therefore, Germany should begin

aiding these economically troubled countries.

Which one of the following principles most helps to

justify the political scientist’s reasoning?

(A) Any nation that alone has an obligation to

economically resuscitate neighboring countries

ought to be the only nation to provide any

economic aid.

(B) Any nation that alone has the capacity to

economically resuscitate neighboring countries

should exercise that capacity.

(C) Any nation that can afford to give economic aid

to just a few other nations ought to aid just

those few.

(D) Only nations that alone have the capacity to

economically resuscitate neighboring countries

should exercise that capacity.

(E) Only nations that can afford to give economic

aid to just a few other nations ought to aid just

those few.

zindan · 发表于 2006-9-27 08:22:00

Thanks, I see. Seems like I can do more right when using my intuition only rather than combining with too much so-called formal logic.

fredshen · 发表于 2006-9-27 09:58:00

You are right about that. I happen to know some people that scored over 175 in LSAT. They all said they didnt think when they took the test, everything just flew naturally for them. They also said if they had thought, they would run out of time.

Like "the only" and "only", it should click when first read it, if it doesnt click at that time, I dont think one can get it on the test by thinking it over and over and not run out time.

The thing is LSAT changes things around in the test. Mechanical, robotic thinking would causing reversing effect in recent tests. The 90s tests, lot of them had same format. But recent tests, the double questions are gone, Stimuli are shorter, and more of puzzle. More and more it's like a IQ test.

fredshen · 发表于 2006-9-27 10:06:00

There are several questions on the recent tests read like formal logic question, but you would be banging your heads on the wall if you blindly diagram it without understanding it. LSAT tests logic, not diagraming, so they make the question wordy and hard to diagram. Formal logic questions used to be a chain that is really easy to follow. But now, it gets shuffled and sometimes the elements dont connect at all.

zindan · 发表于 2006-9-27 10:38:00

Yes, I agree with you. LSAT always play tricks. It may be a IQ test for natives, but for most foreigners, you have to overwhelm the language barrier first.

markram · 发表于 2006-9-28 22:02:00

我感觉the only people中的only词性应为形容词，而only people。。。中的词性为副词。

c项的意思是否可以理解为：无意在商业领域谋利的群体中仅有的一些对提升自身心智感兴趣的人
d项则为：只有那些无意在商业领域谋利的人才会醉心于提升自身的心智

当然上面是意译，但我想应该没有违背“信达雅”的翻译要旨，意译的目的自然是更清晰的体现两句之间的区别，这样哪个选项更佳自然无需赘言

fredshen · 发表于 2006-9-29 02:58:00

以下是引用markram在2006-9-28 22:02:00的发言：
我感觉the only people中的only词性应为形容词，而only people。。。中的词性为副词。

c项的意思是否可以理解为：无意在商业领域谋利的群体中仅有的一些对提升自身心智感兴趣的人
d项则为：只有那些无意在商业领域谋利的人才会醉心于提升自身的心智

当然上面是意译，但我想应该没有违背“信达雅”的翻译要旨，意译的目的自然是更清晰的体现两句之间的区别，这样哪个选项更佳自然无需赘言

c项的意思是否可以理解为：无意在商业领域谋利的群体中仅有的一些对提升自身心智感兴趣的人

无意在商业领域谋利的人都是对提升自身心智感兴趣的人

or

只有那些醉心于提升自身的心智的人才会无意在商业领域谋利

your translation for d is correct.

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