Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT144 S4 Q11 Explanation

A person who knowingly brings

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TopicsPrinciple-Conform

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Stimulus

A person who knowingly brings about misfortune should be blamed for it. However, in some cases a person who unwittingly brings about misfortune should not be blamed for it. For example, a person should never be blamed person could not reasonably have foreseen it.

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
11.

The principles above, if valid, most help to justify the reasoning in which one

Answer choices

  1. Trap1% picked this

    Although he would have realized it if he had thought about it, it did not occur to Riley that parking his car in the

  2. Correct95% picked this

    Oblicek had no idea that suggesting to her brother that he take out a loan to expand his business was likely to cause the

    Why this is right

    Answer B is correct.

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

  3. Trap1% picked this

    Gougon had no reason to think that serving the hollandaise sauce would make his guests ill, but he was concerned that it might. Thus,

  4. Trap1% picked this

    When Dr. Fitzpatrick gave his patient the wrong medicine, he did not know that it would cause the patient to experience greatly increased blood

  5. Trap2% picked this

    Any reasonable person could have foreseen that dropping a lit cigarette in dry leaves would start a fire. Thus, even if Kapp did not

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