All too many weaklings are also cowards, and few cowards fail to be fools. Thus there must be at least one person wh...

Irene-Vera July 2, 2019

Question about vid

Hi, in the video she mentions that the flaw is trying to apply the transitive property across. Does this mean that it must be the same transitive property? For example if an answer choice used a most statement could that also possibly be a correct answer or must it only be a some statement because that's the quantified that is being used?

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Ravi July 3, 2019

@Irene-Vera,

Happy to help. "All too many" and "few" are both phrases that are too
vague for us to classify as anything other than "some" statements, so
here's how our diagram appears for this question:

Weaklings - some - cowards
Cowards - some - fools
Therefore, weaklings - some - fools

In general, yes, the correct answer choice these types of questions
will have the same type of error that's being committed in the
stimulus. Because the stimulus only contains "some" statements, we're
looking for the answer choice that also only has "some" statements.
This is exactly what we find with (C), as it says that

Painters - some - musicians
Musicians - some - dancers

Therefore, painters - some - dancers

This is why (C) is the correct answer choice.

Does this make sense? Let us know if you have any other questions!