Necessary AssumptionDiff: Medium
Logic Breakdown
Passage Summary: Laws only work if people want to follow them. Because countries don't want to give up control of their businesses, we'll never get a worldwide agreement on pollution to work.
Conclusion: A comprehensive international solution to pollution is impossible.
Reasoning: Laws require willing compliance to be effective, and nations are unwilling to surrender control over their industries to meet international standards.
Analysis: The argument concludes that a comprehensive solution is impossible because nations won't give up their industrial power. This logic only holds if giving up that power is a requirement for a comprehensive solution to exist. We are looking for a 'bridge' between the concept of an international solution and the specific sacrifice of industrial sovereignty. If a solution could be reached without nations giving up power, the whole argument would collapse.
Conclusion: A comprehensive international solution to pollution is impossible.
Reasoning: Laws require willing compliance to be effective, and nations are unwilling to surrender control over their industries to meet international standards.
Analysis: The argument concludes that a comprehensive solution is impossible because nations won't give up their industrial power. This logic only holds if giving up that power is a requirement for a comprehensive solution to exist. We are looking for a 'bridge' between the concept of an international solution and the specific sacrifice of industrial sovereignty. If a solution could be reached without nations giving up power, the whole argument would collapse.
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Unlock Full Passage11.Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument?
Correct Answer
B
The argument relies on the idea that a comprehensive solution would require some nations to give up power over their industries. Negation test: if no nation would need to give up any power as part of a comprehensive solution, then the fact that few would willingly give up power becomes irrelevant, and the conclusion that there can be no comprehensive solution would not follow. So B is necessary.
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