Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT14 S4 Q2 Explanation

You should not praise an act

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TopicsPrinciple-Conform

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Stimulus

You should not praise an act of apparent generosity unless you believe it is actually performed out of selfless motives, and you should not condemn an act of apparent selfishness actually performed out of self-centered motives.

What this question is testing

Principle-Conform

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
2.

Which one of the following judgments conforms to the principle

Answer choices

  1. Trap1% picked this

    Caroline rightly blamed her coworker Monica for failing to assist her in doing a time-consuming project, even though she knew that Monica had offered

  2. Trap9% picked this

    It was correct for Sarah not to praise Michael for being charitable when he told her that he donates a tenth of his income

  3. Trap2% picked this

    Enrich justifiably excused his friend William for failing to write or phone after William moved out of town because he realized that William never

  4. Correct85% picked this

    Daniel was right not to praise Margaret for offering to share her house with a visiting French family, since he believed that she made

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

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

  5. Trap2% picked this

    Albert correctly criticized Louise for adopting an abandoned dog because he believed that, although she felt sorry for the dog, she did not have

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