Logical Reasoning

PT135 · S2 · Q15 Economist: A country's rapid

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Economist: A country's rapid emergence from an economic recession requires substantial new investment in that country's economy.

Evidence

A country's rapid emergence from an economic recession requires RE → NI substantial new investment in that country's economy.

People's confidence in the NI → C economic policies of their country is a precondition for any new investment.

Conclusion

Countries that put collective goals CG → ~RE before individuals' goals cannot emerge quickly from an economic recession.

Evaluate

The argument assumes that in CG → ~C countries where collective goals are put before individuals’ goals people do not have confidence in the economic policies of their country.

15.

Which one of the following, if assumed, enables the economist's conclusion to be properly drawn?

  1. No new investment occurs in

    Negated Premise

    This answer simply negates the ~RE → ~NI first premise.

    3% picked this

  2. Recessions in countries that put

    Out of Scope – Term Shift

    Having confidence in the economic policies of their country and supporting the economic policies of their country are different. Since this answer is about support for economic policies, this answer is out of scope.

    3% picked this

  3. If the people in a

    Out of Scope – Opposite Group

    The argument is about countries where collective goals are put before individual goals, while this answer is about a different set of countries—those that put individual goals first.

    18% picked this

  4. Correct

    People in countries that put

    Why this is right

    This bridges the gap between CG → ~C putting collective goals before individual goals and people not having confidence in the economic policies of their countries.

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

    76% picked this

  5. A country's economic policies are

    Out of Scope – Time Condition

    The argument is about emerging from an economic recession, not the factors that lead to an economic recession.

    1% picked this

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