Logical Reasoning

PT138 · S4 · Q4 Ecologist: Landfills are generally designed

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Ecologist: Landfills are generally designed to hold ten years' worth of waste.

Opposing Support

Landfills are generally designed to hold ten years’ worth of waste.

Opposing Point

Some people maintain that as the number of active landfills consequently dwindles over the coming decade, there will inevitably be a crisis in landfill availability.

Premise

However, their prediction obviously relies on the unlikely assumption that no new landfills will open as currently active ones close.

Main Conclusion

[Their prediction] is therefore unsound.

Evaluate

That there will be a crisis in landfill availability is the opposing point in the ecologist’s argument.

4.

The claim that there will be a crisis in landfill availability plays which one of the following roles in the ecologist's argument?

  1. It follows from the claim

    Contradiction

    Some people maintain that their prediction follows from the first sentence, but the arguments contends exactly the opposite.

    3% picked this

  2. It is the main conclusion

    Wrong Role

    The claim plays the role of opposing point.

    3% picked this

  3. It establishes the truth of

    Wrong Role

    The claim plays the role of opposing point.

    1% picked this

  4. Correct

    It is a claim on

    Why this is right

    This correctly describes the role of opposing point.

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

    89% picked this

  5. It is an intermediate conclusion

    Wrong Role

    The claim plays the role of opposing point.

    4% picked this

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