Logical Reasoning

PT17 · S3 · Q5 Walter and Larissa are logically

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Walter: For the economically privileged in a society to tolerate an injustice perpetrated against one of society's disadvantaged is not just morally wrong but also shortsighted: a system that inflicts an injustice on a disadvantaged person today can equally well inflict that same injustice on a well-to-do person tomorrow.

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.

5.

Walter and Larissa are logically committed by what they say to disagreeing about which one of the following?

  1. whether the poor and the

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  2. whether the most successful members

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  3. whether the disadvantaged members of

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  4. whether those who have the

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  5. Correct

    whether the economically privileged members

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

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

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