Parallel ReasoningDiff: medium
Logic Breakdown
Passage Summary: People are hurting animals in the park; since we assume people wouldn't do that if they knew better, those doing it must be ignorant of the harm they're causing.
Conclusion: Some park visitors must be unaware that their behavior is harmful to the animals.
Reasoning: Some visitors engage in harmful practices, and it is assumed that anyone who knew such practices were harmful would not engage in them.
Analysis: This argument follows a valid deductive structure: Some people do X; if you knew X was bad, you wouldn't do it; therefore, those doing X don't know it's bad. To find a parallel, we need to match this 'Some/All/Some' pattern. We are looking for a group where a subset performs an action, a general rule states that knowledge of a certain fact would prevent that action, and the conclusion is that the subset lacks that knowledge. It’s a classic case of using a behavioral observation to infer a mental state based on a conditional rule.
Conclusion: Some park visitors must be unaware that their behavior is harmful to the animals.
Reasoning: Some visitors engage in harmful practices, and it is assumed that anyone who knew such practices were harmful would not engage in them.
Analysis: This argument follows a valid deductive structure: Some people do X; if you knew X was bad, you wouldn't do it; therefore, those doing X don't know it's bad. To find a parallel, we need to match this 'Some/All/Some' pattern. We are looking for a group where a subset performs an action, a general rule states that knowledge of a certain fact would prevent that action, and the conclusion is that the subset lacks that knowledge. It’s a classic case of using a behavioral observation to infer a mental state based on a conditional rule.
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Unlock Full Passage24.The pattern of reasoning exhibited by which one of the following arguments is most similar to that exhibited by the argument above?
Correct Answer
C
C mirrors the structure exactly: Some of the people polled live outside the city (some A are B). No one who can vote lives outside the city (V -> ~B, so B -> ~V). Therefore, some of the people polled cannot vote (some A are not V). It matches the “some + contrapositive to a negated conclusion” pattern.
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