Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Hard

PT125 S4 Q22 Explanation

The short-term and long-term

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TopicsSufficient Assumption

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Stimulus

The short-term and long-term interests of a business often conflict; when they do, the morally preferable act is usually the one that serves the long-term interest. Because of this, to execute the morally preferable act.

What this question is testing

Sufficient Assumption

Your task

Find the assumption that, if added, guarantees the conclusion follows.

Common trap

Answers that only partly bridge the gap, leaving the conclusion unproven.

Winning move

Identify the new term in the conclusion and pick the choice that links it to the evidence.

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The question
22.

Which one of the following, if assumed, enables the conclusion of the argument to

Answer choices

  1. Weakens1% picked this

    A business's moral interests do not always provide compelling reasons for

    If a business’s moral interests are it’s long-term interests, then this would limit the frequency in which such interests offer a compelling reason to execute the morally preferable act.

  2. Correct70% picked this

    A business's long-term interests often provide compelling reasons for executing

    Why this is right

    This bridges the gap between LT → CRE the identifying which interests are morally preferable and actually have a compelling reasoning to execute on those interests.

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

  3. Premise Support15% picked this

    The morally preferable act for a business to execute and the long-term interests of the

    This supports the premise that the long-term interests of a company are usually morally preferable to it’s short-term interests.

  4. Premise Support12% picked this

    The morally preferable act for a business to execute and the short-term interests of the

    This supports the premise that the long-term interests of a company are usually morally preferable to it’s short-term interests.

  5. Out of Scope - Term Shift2% picked this

    When a business's short-term and long-term interests conflict, morality alone is rarely

    The issue isn’t whether morality offers overriding considerations, but whether morality overlaps with considerations that are compelling.

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