Please help
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Maroun
· started 2019-03-28 14:34
· last activity 2019-12-28 01:57
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Can you run through this for me? I am very confused with the correct answer choice, and I am not sure how my diagrams are incorrect
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shunhe
· 2019-12-28 01:57
Hi @Maroun,
Here's one way to diagram it, which is generally a good approach to take a match the flaw question. I'll diagram the stimulus first. An implicit premise here is that Lester works at Leila's electronics; it would've been better if this had been made explicit, but by the time we get to the answer choices it's pretty obvious.
WLE = Work at Leila's electronics
RPPE = Receive poor performance evaluation
RR = receive raise
P1) WLE - > ~(RPPE & RR)
We can rewrite this as
WLE - > ~RPPE v ~RR
P2) ~RR
Conclusion: RPPE.
To translate what's going on into English, since we know that Lester works at Leila's electronic, he can't have gotten both a poor performance evaluation and a raise. And we know he didn't get a raise, so we conclude that he received a poor performance evaluation. But the problem with this logic is the following: it is completely possible that Lester could not have gotten a raise and not have gotten a poor performance evaluation. Remember that the logical "OR" is inclusive and so both conditions can be true. Even if WLE - > ~RR & ~RPPE, (P1) is still true. The answer choice we're looking for has to match this solution, and after going through them, we can see that (D) commits the same logical fallacy. Diagramming (D), we get
P1) Lives in house - > ~(Own & Pay rent)
Which we rewrite as
Lives in house - > ~Own v ~Pay rent
P2) ~Own house
Conclusion: Pay rent
And we can immediately see that this parallels the structure of the stimulus. Hope this helps! If anything was unclear, feel free to ask further questions.
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