Flawed Parallel ReasoningDiff: Hard
Logic Breakdown
Passage Summary: If you study history, you'll appreciate differences. If you reflect on your own life, you'll also appreciate differences. Therefore, if you study history, you must be reflecting on your own life.
Conclusion: Studying history leads to reflecting on one's own civilization.
Reasoning: Studying history results in an appreciation of past civilizations, and reflecting on one's own civilization also results in an appreciation of past civilizations.
Analysis: The argument commits a classic formal logic error by confusing necessary and sufficient conditions. It establishes two different paths (history and reflection) that lead to the same destination (appreciation). Just because you took the first path doesn't mean you took the second one. Look for an answer choice that has two separate conditions leading to the same result and then incorrectly concludes that one condition implies the other.
Conclusion: Studying history leads to reflecting on one's own civilization.
Reasoning: Studying history results in an appreciation of past civilizations, and reflecting on one's own civilization also results in an appreciation of past civilizations.
Analysis: The argument commits a classic formal logic error by confusing necessary and sufficient conditions. It establishes two different paths (history and reflection) that lead to the same destination (appreciation). Just because you took the first path doesn't mean you took the second one. Look for an answer choice that has two separate conditions leading to the same result and then incorrectly concludes that one condition implies the other.
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Unlock Full Passage19.Which one of the following is most closely parallel in its flawed reasoning to the flawed reasoning in the argument above?
Correct Answer
B
B matches the flawed form exactly: Learn Latin → improve vocabulary (L → V); studying great literature → improve vocabulary (G → V); therefore, learn Latin → study great literature (L → G). That mirrors H → A; R → A; therefore, H → R.
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