Logical Reasoning

PT115 · S2 · Q3 Letter to the editor: Allowing

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Letter to the editor: Allowing everyone to voice personal views can have the effect of inhibiting some from voicing their concerns.

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

3.

Which one of the following, if true, does most to justify the apparently contradictory conclusion above?

  1. Correct

    When free speech is unrestricted,

    Why this is right

    Answer A is correct.

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

    92% picked this

  2. When there is unrestricted free

    Trap

    4% picked this

  3. Since unrestricted free speech can

    Trap

    2% picked this

  4. Claiming that unrestricted free speech

    Trap

    1% picked this

  5. When free speech is unrestricted,

    Trap

    2% picked this

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