Logical Reasoning

PT127 · S3 · Q16 Therapist: The ability to trust

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Therapist: The ability to trust other people is essential to happiness, for without trust there can be no meaningful emotional connection to another human being, and without meaningful emotional connections to others we feel isolated.

Evidence

Without trust there can be no EC → T meaningful emotional connection to another human being.

Without meaningful emotional ~FI → EC connections to others we feel isolated.

Conclusion

The ability to trust other people H → T is essential to happiness.

Evaluate

The argument assumes that H → ~FI happiness requires that one not feel isolated.

16.

Which one of the following, if assumed, allows the conclusion of the therapist's argument to be properly inferred?

  1. Correct

    No one who is feeling

    Why this is right

    This bridges the gap between FI → ~H being happy and not feeling isolated. This answer hides the relationship in the contrapositive form.

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

    68% picked this

  2. Anyone who has a meaningful

    Reversed Assumption

    This would bridge the gap EC → H between the first premise and the conclusion, if it were reversed.

    10% picked this

  3. To avoid feeling isolated, it

    Reversed Inference

    This reverses an inference ~FI → T that could be made from the two premises.

    13% picked this

  4. At least some people who

    Too Weak

    This connects being happy ~FI ↢some↣ H and not feeling isolated, but it’s degree is too weak.

    5% picked this

  5. Anyone who is able to

    Reversed Premise

    This reverses the first premise. T → EC

    5% picked this

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