Logical Reasoning

PT138 · S3 · Q15 Anyone who knows Ellsworth

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Anyone who knows Ellsworth knows that he is bursting with self-righteousness, touting the idealism of his generation over the greed of the previous generation.

Conclusion

Everyone who knows Ellsworth will be unsurprised to hear he is offended by allegations that he's engaged in unethical business practices.

Evidence

Everyone who knows Ellsworth knows he's bursting with self-righteousness, proclaiming that his generation is idealistic whereas previous ones were greedy.

Evaluate

Given the structure, we're looking for a logical connector that says if you know X, you'll be unsurprised to hear Y

Goal

Thus, we could take either of two things we know about E and try to get to the language of the conclusion: or "if you know someone's been saying that their generation is less greedy than were previous generations, then you'll be unsurprised that they're offended of being alleged of unethical business practice.

15.

The conclusion drawn above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

  1. Everyone suspects self-righteous people of

    Bad Conclusion Match

    This would work if it said "everyone suspects self-righteous people of being likely to take great offense to being accused of unethical business practices"

    12% picked this

  2. Ellsworth has been accused of

    Unrelated to Goal

    We only care about getting from "if you know X, you'll be unsurprised to hear Y". This isn't giving us any sort of rule about how people would associate two thoughts.

    4% picked this

  3. Hypocrites often hide behind righteous

    Out of Scope: hypocrite

    We only care about getting from "if you know X, you'll be unsurprised to hear Y". This answer would, at best, give us a rule that says "If you know someone is a hypocrite, then you'll be unsurprised that they hide behind righteous indignation."

    7% picked this

  4. Ellsworth is in fact innocent

    Unrelated to Goal

    We only care about getting from "if you know X, you'll be unsurprised to hear Y". This isn't giving us any sort of rule about how people would associate two thoughts.

    3% picked this

  5. Correct

    Everyone expects self-righteous people to

    Why this is right

    This helps get us from "If you know self-righteous, then you'll be unsurprised to hear that greatly offended he's being accused of unethical business practice." Everyone expects = No one will be surprised Since everyone who knows E knows he's self-righteous, and since everyone expects self-righteous people to be easily offended, no one who knows E will be surprised that he's offended by media accusations against him.

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

    74% picked this

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