Logical Reasoning

PT156 · S4 · Q26 Letter to the editor: In calling

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Letter to the editor: In calling on antinuclear activists to "live up to their own ideals" and help find better ways of disposing of nuclear waste, advocates of nuclear power merely prove their own dishonesty.

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.

26.

Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify the reasoning in the argument?

  1. If other options are available,

    Trap

    8% picked this

  2. It is better to eliminate

    Trap

    15% picked this

  3. Correct

    If one is calling on

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

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

    64% picked this

  4. It is irresponsible to try

    Trap

    9% picked this

  5. It is dishonest to ask

    Trap

    5% picked this

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