Logical Reasoning

PT146 · S3 · Q19 Jurist: To ensure that a legal

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Jurist: To ensure that a legal system remains just, it is important to guarantee that lawbreaking does not give lawbreakers an unfair advantage over law abiders.

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.

19.

The jurist's claim that it is important to guarantee that lawbreaking does not give lawbreakers an unfair advantage over law abiders functions in the argument in which one of the following ways?

  1. It states a condition that,

    Trap

    15% picked this

  2. Correct

    It expresses a principle that

    Why this is right

    Answer B is correct.

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

    71% picked this

  3. It is a conclusion for

    Trap

    2% picked this

  4. It is a premise presented

    Trap

    12% picked this

  5. It is presented as refuting

    Trap

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