Team captain: Winning requires the willingness to cooperate, which in turn requires motivation. So you will not win ...
Avaon December 24, 2019
Diagraming this question
Can someone demonstrate how you would diagram the stimulus and then match it to the correct answer choice? Thanks in advance.
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Shunheon January 2, 2020
Hi @shafieiava,
First, I'll begin with diagramming the stimulus.
Premise 1: Winning - > Willingness to cooperate Premise 2: Willingness to cooperate - > Motivation
Conclusion: ~Motivated - > ~Win
Why? Take the contrapositive of the two premises:
Premise 1: ~Willingness to cooperate - > ~Winning Premise 2: ~Motivation - > ~Willingness to cooperate
And we can link those together to get
~Motivation - >~Willingness to cooperate - > ~Winning
Which get us ~Motivation - > ~Win, the diagram of the stimulus. To make the structure of the argument a bit more abstract, we can write:
A - >B B - >C Conclusion: ~C - >~A
As for the correct answer choice, we can see that when we diagram (C), we have:
Premise 1: Retain status - > Raises more money Premise 2: Raises more money - > Increased campaigning
Conclusion: ~Increased campaigning - > ~Retain status
And we can see that this matches the structure above, if A = retain status, B = raises more money, and C = increased campaigning. Keep in mind that we can diagram "X unless Y" as ~Y - >X, and we diagram "X only if Y" as X - >Y. "X requires Y" is diagrammed as X - >Y. Hope this helps!