Logical Reasoning

PT15 · S3 · Q14 Although inflated government spending for weapons

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Although inflated government spending for weapons research encourages waste at weapons research laboratories, weapons production plants must be viewed as equally wasteful of taxpayer dollars.

Your task

Describe the reasoning error the argument actually commits.

Common trap

Answers that name a real logical flaw the argument doesn't actually make.

Winning move

Articulate the gap in the reasoning yourself, then match it to the choice that describes that gap.

14.

The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to criticism on which one of the following grounds?

  1. It offers no evidence that

    Trap

    5% picked this

  2. It concedes a point regarding

    Trap

    4% picked this

  3. Correct

    It relies on evidence that

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

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

    73% picked this

  4. It confuses necessary expenditures for

    Trap

    3% picked this

  5. It fails to establish that

    Trap

    16% picked this

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