Logical Reasoning

PT142 · S2 · Q24 Historian: It is unlikely that someone

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Historian: It is unlikely that someone would see history as the working out of moral themes unless he or she held clear and unambiguous moral beliefs.

Conclusion

more --------------------------------> less you see you history as know W.O.M.T. history

Evidence

more ---> less you're you inclined to know morally history judge H.B.

don't hold -> won't see C&U moral history as beliefs W.O.M.T.

Goal

To derive the logical connection in the conclusion (going from the 1st idea to the 4th idea), we need to get from that 2nd idea to that 3rd idea.

We want something like this:

less inclined don't hold to morally → C&U moral judge H.B. beliefs

24.

The conclusion of the argument is properly drawn if which one of the following is assumed?

  1. Historical events that fail to

    Out of Scope

    Out of Scope: moral disapproval Unrelated to Goal The correct answer to Sufficient Assumption shouldn't be introducing any new concepts, such as "failing to elicit moral disapproval". Our answer has to get us from "as we become less inclined to morally judge human behavior, we end up lacking clear and unambiguous moral beliefs".

    2% picked this

  2. Correct

    The less inclined one is

    Why this is right

    The more history you know, the less inclined you are to morally judge human behavior. The less inclined you are to morally judge human behavior, the less likely that you hold clear and unambiguous moral beliefs. When you don't hold clear and unambiguous moral beliefs, it's unlikely you'll see history as the working out of moral themes. The more history you know, the less likely you'll see history as the working out of moral themes.

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

    65% picked this

  3. Only those who do not

    Relative vs. Absolute Illegal Opposite

    "if you don't understand history, you won't attribute moral significance to historical events", which is introducing some new language but sounds reminiscent of the ideas in the Conclusion. However, the conclusion is saying the more you understand history, the less likely you see history as the working out of moral themes. This answer feels like an Illegal Opposite of the conclusion (although this answer is conditional with absolute yes/no language, whereas the conclusion is actually relative). So it's the wrong kind of claim, it's acting more like an illegal opposite, and it's introducing new language that creates loose ends: is not attributing moral significance to historical events the same as not viewing history as the working out of moral themes?

    6% picked this

  4. The more clear and unambiguous

    Unrelated to Goal

    We are trying to connect "the more history you know, the less you see history as the working out of moral themes". The evidence only told us that "the more history you know, the less inclined you are to morally judge human behavior". If an answer choice doesn't take us from "the more history you know" or from "the less inclined you are to morally judge human behavior" to some other idea, then it is functionally useless to us. It can't help us to build on to what we know in order to derive the conclusion.

    20% picked this

  5. People tend to be less

    Out of Scope

    Out of Scope: objective Unrelated to Goal The correct answer to Sufficient Assumption shouldn't be introducing any new concepts, such as "being less objective". Our answer has to get us from "as we become less inclined to morally judge human behavior, we end up lacking clear and unambiguous moral beliefs".

    7% picked this

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