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Logic Breakdown

Passage Summary: If you get information from a trustworthy source, it's okay to believe it; furthermore, some of these trustworthy beliefs aren't obvious on their own and aren't based on things you can see for yourself.

Reasoning: Beliefs from reliable sources are reasonable to maintain, and some of these beliefs are not self-evident or based on observable evidence.

Analysis: This stimulus provides a conditional rule and an existential fact. We are told that a reliable source is a sufficient condition for a belief to be reasonable. We are then told that there exists a subset of these reliable-source beliefs that lack self-evidence and observable evidence. By combining these, we can conclude that there are indeed reasonable beliefs that are neither self-evident nor based on observable evidence. Look for an answer choice that simply synthesizes these two premises into a single statement.

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If all the statements above are true, which one of the following statements must be true?

Correct Answer
E
E restates the combined inference: among reasonable beliefs that are not self-evident, there are some that are not grounded in observable evidence. From Reliable -> Reasonable and the existence of beliefs that are Reliable and neither self-evident nor observable, it follows that there exist beliefs that are Reasonable and neither self-evident nor observable.
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