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KatrinaMusaon February 7, 2020
Flawed Contrapositive argument
For question 8, i got the right answer but i identified the flaw as being that the passage and option D both invoked the necessary condition of the contrapositive to conclude the sufficient of the contrapositive, making it a flawed contrapositive argument. Is this way of doing it wrong?
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The passage states: PL -> OPTC. It then takes the existence of NOT PL to incorrectly conclude NOT OPTC.
This is illustrated as: PR: PL -> OPTC P: NOT PL - - - - - - - - C: NOT OPTC
The video explains this flaw as only negating the original principle. It says that you cannot just negate the principle PL -> OPTC to get NOT PL -> NOT OPTC.
You explain it through the lens of the contrapositive. This means that, from the contrapositive NOT OPTC -> NOT PL, you cannot take the N condition (NOT PL) to conclude the S condition (NOT OPTC).
Both explanations identify the same error but explain them from different perspectives (that of the original principle versus that of the contrapositive). Nevertheless, both ways are correct and should lead to the same answer.
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