Logical Reasoning

PT118 · S1 · Q25 Some visitors to the park

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Some visitors to the park engage in practices that seriously harm the animals.

Evidence

Some visitors engage in Some people do thing practices that seriously that causes X. harm the animals.

No one who knew that knew X → wouldn't these practices seriously do thing harm the animals would engage in them.

Conclusion

Some visitors don't know Some people these practices seriously don't know X harm the animals.

Evaluate

At its bare bones, this argument is just a contrapositive argument.

P1: If knew harm → wouldn't engage P2: Some people do engage. C: Some people do not know harm.

The correct answer may or may not maintain the "no one who knows X would do Y" type vibe to the conversation. Sometimes they drop the extra colors to the conversation and just mimic the contrapositive aspect.

Goal

Initially just make sure that an argument has a conditional premise, a premise that establishes the outcome isn't happening, and a conclusion that says the trigger isn't happening.

If more than one contender remains, get more nuanced with similarities.

25.

The pattern of reasoning exhibited by which one of the following arguments is most similar to that exhibited by the argument above?

  1. Some of the people who

    Bad Premise/Conclusion Match

    We have a conditional: in this department ? played important part Our second premise should be saying but these people didn't play an important part. And then our conclusion would be, so these people aren't in this department. But the 2nd premise and the Conclusion don't match those at all.

    4% picked this

  2. Some of the people who

    Bad Premise/Conclusion Match

    We have a conditional: signed petition ? mayor denounced you Our second premise should be saying but the mayor didn't denounce these people. And then our conclusion would be, so these people didn't sign the petition. But the 2nd premise and the Conclusion don't match those at all.

    13% picked this

  3. Correct

    Some of the people polled

    Why this is right

    We have a conditional: can vote in city election ? ~live outside city Our second premise should be saying but these people do live outside the city. And then our conclusion would be, so these people don't vote in city election. And that's what we get from our other two ingredients!

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

    69% picked this

  4. All of the five original

    Bad Premise/Conclusion Match

    We have two conditionals, which makes this a quick elimination: original planner ? responsible for problem original planner ? won't admit responsibility The conclusion is valid, but the structure is different. This was two conditional premises with an overlapping trigger. The original argument was one conditional premise and then a fact that showed the outcome of the conditional was not true.

    7% picked this

  5. Some members of the Liberal

    Bad Conclusion Match

    We have a conditional: member city council ? opposed to prop ord. Our second premise should be saying but these people aren't opposed. And then our conclusion would be, so these people aren't members of city council. The 2nd Premise is good to go Some Libs are not opposed (they're in favor). The Conclusion should therefore be, So, some Libs are not members of city council. Instead, the conclusion here is, So, some members of city council are not Libs. That's structurally different and also flawed. It's still possible that all members of the city council are Liberals. They could just be Liberals who are opposed to this proposed ordinance.

    8% picked this

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