Logical Reasoning

PT142 · S2 · Q3 Commentator: If a political administration

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Commentator: If a political administration is both economically successful and successful at protecting individual liberties, then it is an overall success.

Given

If a political administration is both ES + SPIL → OS economically successful and successful at protecting individual liberties, then it is an overall success.

Even an administration that fails SPIL → ~(OS → CE) to care for the environment may succeed overall if it protects individual liberties.

So far, the present administration ~CE + SPIL has not cared for the environment but has successfully protected individual liberties.

3.

If all of the statements above are true, then which one of the following must be true?

  1. The present administration is economically

    Unsupported

    Without knowing whether the ~ES administration is an overall success, it cannot be established whether its an economic success.

    6% picked this

  2. The present administration is not

    Unsupported

    Without knowing whether the ~OS administration is an economic success, it cannot be established whether it’s an overall success.

    4% picked this

  3. Correct

    If the present administration is

    Why this is right

    Since the administration has ES → OS protected individual liberties, the first statement reduces to this relationship.

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

    86% picked this

  4. If the present administration had

    Contradiction

    The statements imply the ES + SPIL → OS opposite. They suggest SPIL → ~(OS → CE) that the administration ES + SPIL did not need to care for ჻ ~(OS CE) the environment.

    1% picked this

  5. If the present administration succeeds

    Unsupported

    The statements imply that if ES → OS the administration succeeds economically, then it will be an overall success. But this says that caring for the CE → OS environment implies that it will be an overall success.

    3% picked this

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