Logic Breakdown

Passage Summary: You can't have freedom without the rule of law because freedom depends on social integrity, and you also need social integrity to live a good life.

Conclusion: Individual freedom cannot exist without the rule of law.

Reasoning: Individual freedom requires social integrity, and pursuing a good life also requires social integrity.

Analysis: This argument has a clear 'missing link' in its conditional chain. We are told that Freedom requires Social Integrity (F -> SI), but the conclusion claims Freedom requires the Rule of Law (F -> RL). To make this logically airtight, we must assume that Social Integrity itself requires the Rule of Law (SI -> RL). The mention of the 'good life' is a distractor that doesn't currently connect to the conclusion, so the correct assumption will likely ignore it and focus on connecting integrity to the law.

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The conclusion drawn above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

Correct Answer
B
If we assume there can be no social integrity without the rule of law (Social Integrity -> Rule of Law), then from Individual Freedom -> Social Integrity we can chain to Individual Freedom -> Rule of Law. That makes the conclusion follow. The “good life” premise is extraneous to this derivation.
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