Logical Reasoning

PT147 · S4 · Q7 Trade negotiator: Increasing economic

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Trade negotiator: Increasing economic prosperity in a country tends to bring political freedom to its inhabitants.

Conclusion (therefore)

It is wrong for any country to adopt trade policies that are likely to seriously hinder growth in the prosperity of any other country.

Evidence

Increasing economic prosperity in a country tends to bring political freedom to its inhabitants.

Evaluate

The overlapping ingredient between the evidence and conclusion is the concept of "prosperity", so we should focus on the link between the language connected to prosperity.

From the evidence what we know about prosperity is, "tends to bring political freedom to inhabitants".

What we're trying to prove about prosperity is, "shouldn't adopt a trade policy that hinders it".

Goal

Let's look for something like "a country shouldn't adopt a policy that would hinder [something that brings political freedom to that country's inhabitants].

If it's more conditional, then we want a Premise to Conclusion move like,

If X brings political no country's freedom to a → trade policy should country's inhabitants hinder X

7.

Which one of the following principles, if valid, would most help to justify the trade negotiator's reasoning?

  1. Every country should adopt at

    Bad Conclusion Match

    We need a principle that would help us argue that we shouldn't adopt a certain policy. This rule is only set up to prove that a country should adopt a policy.

    2% picked this

  2. Both economic prosperity and political

    Bad Conclusion Match Unrelated to Goal

    This rule doesn't have any language like "shouldn't adopt a policy", so it's useless for our goal.

    3% picked this

  3. The primary reason that any

    Bad Conclusion Match Unrelated to Goal

    This rule doesn't have any language like "shouldn't adopt a policy", so it's useless for our goal.

    1% picked this

  4. Correct

    A country should not do

    Why this is right

    This has the power to prove that a country should not do certain things, which could work for our conclusion which is "should not adopt a trade policy". We need to ask ourselves whether the trigger of this rule would apply to trade policies that hinder prosperity. The rule says, If X might hinder the then no country growth of political ? should do that freedom in another thing country Yes, the trigger does apply. We were told that prosperity tends to bring political freedom. So if a trade policy hinders prosperity, then it might hinder the growth of political freedom. Thus, according to this rule, no country should adopt such a trade policy. It basically proves the conclusion!

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

    87% picked this

  5. It is wrong for any

    Bad Trigger Match

    This also has tempting language that resembles our Evidence and our Conclusion. But it looks like this, If a trade policy would then wrong for diminish the prosperity ? any country to of a country's inhabitants adopt it The problem here is that we have no reason to think that if we, country X, were to adopt a trace policy that hindered prosperity in country Y, it would diminish the prosperity of our country's inhabitants. The trade policy would diminish the prosperity of Y's inhabitants. This rule's trigger is saying, "if it would diminish X's prosperity, then X shouldn't do it". This answer would be totally correct if it ended, "... that might diminish the prosperity of another country's inhabitants".

    7% picked this

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