Logical Reasoning

PT148 · S1 · Q21 No occupation should be subject

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No occupation should be subject to a licensing requirement unless incompetence in the performance of tasks normally carried out within that occupation poses a plausible threat to human health or safety.

Principle

unless (if-not)

If incompetence performing job X job X does not pose a → shouldn't be plausible threat to human subject to health or safety license req.

Evaluate

A rule can only justify a conclusion that matches its right side. Here, the right side is "shouldn't be subject to licensing requirement".

So this rule only has the power to prove a job shouldn't have a licensing requirement. Any answer that is trying to prove a job should is automatically wrong.

We could contrapose this and have

If it should be subject → incompetence is to licensing a threat

Thus, technically we could also use this rule to justify a conclusion saying that , but Apply the Principle questions have never worked that way in the past.

Whichever half of the rule sounds more "judgy", more normative or evaluative, should be on the right, because that's the conclusion they'll support.

In this rule, "should / shouldn't" is the most normative/evaluative language.

Goal

1. Check the conclusion first. If it isn't saying "shouldn't have licensing requirement", ditch it (at least on the first pass).

2. If the conclusion matches the right side of our rule, then we'll see whether the evidence in the answer choice establishes the left side of our rule, that someone being incompetent at doing job X wouldn't be posing a plausible threat to human health or safety.

21.

The principle stated above, if valid, most helps to justify the reasoning in which one of the following arguments?

  1. Because some of the duties

    Weak Trigger Match

    The conclusion is correctly saying, "should not be subject to licensing". But the evidence doesn't establish that "incompetence at police work poses no plausible threat to human health or safety". It only establishes that some duties have no connection to human health or safety.

    2% picked this

  2. Correct

    Because there are no realistic

    Why this is right

    The conclusion is correctly saying, "should not be subject to licensing". Does the evidence doesn't establish that "incompetence at interior design poses no plausible threat to human health or safety"? Yes, it says "there are no realistic (i.e. plausible) circumstances in which poor (i.e. incompetent) interior design could pose a danger to human beings."

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

    57% picked this

  3. Because hospital administrators routinely make

    Bad Conclusion Match

    The conclusion is incorrectly saying, "should be subject to licensing". That's a non-starter. Our conclusion has to match the right side of our principle, and our principle's right side is saying "should not be subject to licensing requirement".

    9% picked this

  4. Because hair stylists regularly use

    Bad Conclusion Match

    The conclusion is incorrectly saying, "should be subject to licensing". That's a non-starter. Our conclusion has to match the right side of our principle, and our principle's right side is saying "should not be subject to licensing requirement".

    23% picked this

  5. Because tattoo artists who do

    Bad Conclusion Match

    The conclusion is incorrectly saying, "should be subject to licensing". That's a non-starter. Our conclusion has to match the right side of our principle, and our principle's right side is saying "should not be subject to licensing requirement".

    9% picked this

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