Logical Reasoning

PT113 · S3 · Q10 If something would have been justifiably

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If something would have been justifiably regretted if it had occurred, then it is something that one should not have desired in the first place.

Conclusion (It follows that)

Many forgone pleasures should not have been desired in the first place.

Evidence

If something would have been justifiably regretted if it had occurred, then it is something that one should not have desired in the first place.

Evaluate

Since the overlapping ingredient in the Conclusion and the Evidence is , we'll be trying to pick an answer that links together the two dangling ideas, "forgone pleasures" and "something that would have been justifiably regretted".

If we're given a rule that, If something is X, then it is Z

And we're trying to prove that A is Z

Then we need to know that A is X.

[ A is X ] + [ if X, then Z ] = [ A is Z ]

They told us a rule that says,

If JR, then should not have been desired.

We're trying to prove that Many FP's should not have been desired.

So we just need to hear that Many FP's are JR

Goal

Let's look for something that gets us Many Forgone Pleasures would have been Justifiably Regretted.

10.

The conclusion above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

  1. One should never regret one’s

    Opposite, if anything

    We're looking to hear that "many forgone pleasures would have been justifiably regretted if they had occurred". This answer is talking about not regretting pleasures, so it's headed in the wrong direction.

    1% picked this

  2. Forgone pleasures that were not

    Opposite, if anything

    We're looking to hear that "many forgone pleasures would have been justifiably regretted if they had occurred". This is talking about stuff that "would not have been justifiably regretted", so it's headed in the wrong direction.

    13% picked this

  3. Everything that one desires and

    Opposite, if anything

    We're looking to hear that "many forgone pleasures would have been justifiably regretted if they had occurred". In other words, if we had actually obtained that pleasure we desired, we would have justifiably regretted it. This answer is talking about regretting that we didn't obtain a pleasure we desired.

    7% picked this

  4. Correct

    Many forgone pleasures would have

    Why this is right

    This answer Many FP's would have been JR combined with the premise If something would have been JR, shouldn't have been desired in the first place allows us to derive the conclusion Many FP's shouldn't have been desired in the first place.

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

    76% picked this

  5. Nothing that one should not

    Unrelated to Goal

    If an answer isn't talking about "forgone pleasures", we're not interested. Our job here is to mathematically prove a claim about "forgone pleasures", and the evidence never mentioned "forgone pleasures", so the correct answer has to. If we combined this answer everything that shouldn't have been desired in the first place is a pleasure with the premise if something would have been justifiably regretted, it shouldn't have been been desired in the first place we would have no chance of deriving this conclusion many forgone pleasures shouldn't have been desired in first place because we never said "many forgone pleasures" in the supporting ideas.

    2% picked this

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