Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Medium

PT6 S2 Q24 Explanation

Someone’s benefiting from having done

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TopicsPrinciple-Conform

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Stimulus

Someone’s benefiting from having done harm to another person is morally justifiable only if the person who was harmed knew that what was done could cause its being done anyway.

What this question is testing

Principle-Conform

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.

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The question
24.

Which one of the following judgments most closely conforms to the

Answer choices

  1. Trap8% picked this

    Attempting to avoid being kept after school as punishment for breaking a window, Sonia falsely claimed that her brother had broken it; Sonia’s action

  2. Trap3% picked this

    Since Ned would not have won the prize for best model airplane if Penny’s brother had not inadvertently damaged her entry while playing with

  3. Correct78% picked this

    Wesley, a doctor, persuaded Max to take part in a medical experiment in which a new drug was being tested; since Wesley failed to

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

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

  4. Trap8% picked this

    Because Roger’s mother suffered severe complications as a result of donating a kidney to him for a lifesaving kidney transplant, it was morally unjustifiable

  5. Trap3% picked this

    For James, who was convicted of having defrauded a large number of people out of their savings and wrote a book about his scheme

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