Logical Reasoning

PT146 · S1 · Q4 Monroe: Our organization’s project

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Monroe: Our organization’s project has been a failure.

Monroe's Claims

1. The organization's project has been a failure (the project failed to reduce as much as possible the number of homes in the community that lack electricity)

2. Our stated goal was to reduce as much as possible the number of homes in the community that lack electricity.

3. The project is over, and approximately 2,000 homes are still without electricity.

Wilkerson's Responses

1. Disagrees - She says that the project has not been a failure. It's been a success!

2. No comment on what the stated goal was.

3. She implicitly agrees with this. She is acting like the current number is 2,000 (since she thinks they've reduced from 5,000 by 3,000 homes).

Evaluate / Goal

Since we found an explicit disagreement, we can probably head to the answers looking for an answer that talks about whether or not the project has been a failure or a success.

4.

Monroe and Wilkerson disagree over the truth of which one of the following?

  1. Approximately 2,000 homes in the

    Agree

    They seemed to agree about this claim. Monroe explicitly says it and Wilkerson does 5,000 - 2,000 math to arrive at her 3,000 number.

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  2. Before the organization’s project began,

    Unsupported Disagree Position

    Wilkerson clearly agrees with this, since she explicitly says so. We have no reason to think that Monroe disagrees. He doesn't say anything about the specific number of homes that had no electricity when the project began.

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  3. The organization’s project must be

    Unsupported Agree Position

    This is such a strongly worded claim that neither person would likely agree with this. Wilkerson already thinks the project was not a failure (and there are still 2,000 people without electricity), so Wilkerson definitely disagrees with this answer. But we couldn't say Monroe agrees with this. He thinks that "if we didn't reduce the number of homes without electricity as much as possible, then we failed". He doesn't necessarily think, "If we didn't reduce the number to zero, then we failed".

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  4. The stated goal of the

    Unsupported Disagree Position

    We know that Monroe agrees with this because he says it explicitly, but we have no reason to think that Wilkerson disagrees with it. She never talks about what the stated goal was.

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  5. Correct

    Leaving approximately 2,000 homes in

    Why this is right

    Both people accept that the current number without electricity is about 2,000. Monroe would agree with this answer, because he tells us that 2000 homes still lacking electricity indicates that this project was a failure. Wilkerson would disagree with this, because she thinks the fact that the project brought electricity to 3,000 homes counts as a success.

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

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