Political theorist: The chief foundations of all governments are the legal system and the police force; and as there ...

ShannonOh22 August 10, 2019

Confused on answer choice D

D) states: "A well-paid police force is sufficient to guarantee a good legal system some bad governments have good legal systems" Aside from the fact that there is some punctuation missing from that sentence, I don't see how we arrived at the conclusion that "some bad governments have good legal systems". The first part of the answer is fine, but in diagramming the stimulus info, I get the following: LS (legal system) & PF (police force) -> FAG (foundation of all governments) Contrapositive: Not FAG -> (not)LS OR (not)PF Second premise: (not)PPW -> (not)GLS Contrapositive: GLS -> PPW Stimulus conclusion: PPW -> GLS I see how this is mistaken reversal of the second premise, so I understand answer choice D saying "a well-paid police force is sufficient to guarantee a good legal system", but where did the part about some BAD governments having legal systems come from?? Thanks!

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ShannonOh22 August 10, 2019

^ Nevermind - your paper book contains the typo I am referring to in the above. I go through the book first, and then input my answers to the online system, but I had this question flagged and wrote about it before looking at the answers in the online platform, where you have corrected the error and separated out D and E into their own answer choices...without the typo, this answer choice makes complete sense. :-)