Strengthen with Necessary Premise Questions - - Question 10
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kristinsmith04October 18, 2020
E seems pretty destructive ...?
Doesn’t the negation of E, “If parts are made for cars manufactured in this country, they are poorly constructed” totally destroy the argument? If Clarke parts are held up to be better than the foreign parts because the foreign parts are poorly constructed, Clark parts being poorly constructed would surely destroy the basis of the argument, no?
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Hi, just hoping for some clarification on this please :)
AndreaKJune 20, 2021
Hi Kristin,
This is a good point you bring up here. However, parts manufactured for our country is too broad to be necessary—we only need this to apply to Clark’s parts, since Clark’s parts are what the conclusion is drawn about. We only need to know that clark’s parts are at least a little bit better in some ways than foreign parts, otherwise there wouldn’t be justification for buying Clark’s over foreign parts.
Hope this helps!
Andrea
Andrea
Alex-HostonOctober 20, 2021
Hello
For the negation of this answer, does it matter the verb that is negated if they are the same verb in the answer presented more than once?
for example:
E) If parts are made for cars manufactured in our country, they are not poorly made.
the answer negated the "are" verb at the end of the answer and not at the beginning?
