Hey you are smart!! Never doubt yourself, the LSAT is intentionally hard so you’re doing a great job!

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@@LuminateLSAT Thank you Kevin :)

Woah, how'd you get a hold of that? Such a long time ago...everybody at the championship tournament was very impressive.

@@LuminateLSAT Jess up moot recently uploaded championship round recordings from before, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sJ1nrbOXmNydmYk.html this is the link to your competition, ive been listening to it when i had free time 😄 learned a lot on how the oralist on how they tackle problems and their confidence is commendable

Not exactly -- if 4. had started with "some" (like 5), then it would be necessary. If 4 had started with some, then the negation would be "No people credibly accused of bribes in connection with their jobs should resign." That negation would make one of the premises completely unsupportive of the conclusion. However, 4 actually starts with "anyone". So the negation of 4 = "Some people who are credibly accuesd of bribes should NOT resign." That does not hurt the argument, because the argument was saying that people who are credibly accused of bribes AND have that accusation damage their public legitimacy should resign. The author is saying that both of those premises together lead to the conclusion. Consider this argument: "Since I'm working overtime and I didn't get a good night's sleep, I will make more mistakes than normal." Is this necessary to the argument: "Anyone who works overtime will make more mistakes than normal." It's not -- the author wasn't saying that all people who work overtime make more mistakes than normal. They were saying all people who work overtime AND didn't get a good night's sleep will make more mistakes than normal. The author's reasoning can acknowledge that people who just worked over time might not make more mistakes than normal -- as long as they got a good night's sleep.

@@LuminateLSAT thank you so much. This trips me up a bit because a common rule I got from Blueprint was that generally, necessary assumptions ARE more broad than sufficient. So when does this rule apply and when does it not?