It's a parallel flaw question.
P1: Countries with an uneducated population are destined to be weak economically + politically.
P2: Countries with an educated population have governments financial support backing up public education.
C: any country with a government that financially supports education will avoid political and economic weakness.
Will someone please help me better understand the flaw here?
I know that the conclusion does not follow from the premises; that is, government commitment to public education is not sufficient to prevent economic and political weakness.
However, I think I'm missing the bigger picture here...
Prep Test 61, Section 4, #26 Forum
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VyingDestiny
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Re: Prep Test 61, Section 4, #26
Hi, I tend to redraw the parallel reasoning questions in order to better understand them.
In this case, it would go like this:
-A yields B
A yields C
C yields -B
I use negatives to represent direct counters, i.e, educated versus uneducated, or destined weakness versus avoided weakness.
I have found that this simplified diagram makes it significantly easier to answer the question. In paralleling flawed reasoning questions, I do not find it beneficial to focus on identifying the flaw per se, because what is important is understanding and imitating the logical flow, whether it be wrong or right.
I hope this helps.
In this case, it would go like this:
-A yields B
A yields C
C yields -B
I use negatives to represent direct counters, i.e, educated versus uneducated, or destined weakness versus avoided weakness.
I have found that this simplified diagram makes it significantly easier to answer the question. In paralleling flawed reasoning questions, I do not find it beneficial to focus on identifying the flaw per se, because what is important is understanding and imitating the logical flow, whether it be wrong or right.
I hope this helps.
