Logical Reasoning

PT120 · S1 · Q3 When a lawmaker spoke out

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When a lawmaker spoke out against a research grant awarded to a professor in a university’s psychology department as a foolish expenditure of public money, other professors in that department drafted a letter protesting the lawmaker’s interference in a field in which he was not trained.

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 principles, if established, provides the strongest justification for the department chair's refusal, on the ground she gives, to sign the protest letter?

  1. A person should not publicly

    Trap

    3% picked this

  2. The chair of an academic

    Trap

    2% picked this

  3. Correct

    A person who has praised

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

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

    93% picked this

  4. Since academic institutions accept public

    Trap

    1% picked this

  5. Academic institutions have the same

    Trap

    1% picked this

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