Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT127 S2 Q10 Explanation

Critic: The idealized world

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TopicsSufficient Assumption

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Stimulus

Critic: The idealized world portrayed in romance literature is diametrically opposed to the debased world portrayed in satirical literature. Nevertheless, the major characters in both types of works have moral qualities that reflect the worlds in which they are presented. Comedy and tragedy, meanwhile, require that the moral qualities of major characters nor comedy can be classified as satirical literature or romance literature.

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
10.

The critic's conclusion follows logically if which one of the following

Answer choices

  1. Out of Scope3% picked this

    Some characters in comedies and tragedies are neither debased

    The argument is based on requirements of major characters. This answer is not necessarily about major characters.

  2. Out of Scope6% picked this

    The visions of the world portrayed in works of tragedy and works of comedy change during the

    While it is relevant that the moral qualities of the major characters in satirical literature and and romance literature reflect the worlds in which they are presented, the opposite is not necessarily true of the moral qualities of the major characters in works of tragedy and words of comedy. Without this further assumption this answer is too weak to ensure the conclusion.

  3. Out of Scope2% picked this

    If a character in a tragedy is idealized at the beginning of the action depicted in the tragedy, he or she must

    This answer doesn't speak to the moral qualities of such characters.

  4. Correct84% picked this

    In romance literature and satirical literature, characters' moral qualities do not change during the course

    Why this is right

    This guarantees that the SRL → ~MQC moral qualities of major characters in romance and satirical literature do not change.

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

  5. Out of Scope5% picked this

    Both comedy and tragedy require that the moral qualities of minor characters change during the

    The argument relies on information about the moral qualities of major characters, while this answer is about the moral qualities of minor characters.

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