Every political philosopher of the early twentieth century who was either a socialist or a communist was influenced b...

Amandla78 October 31, 2021

Why isn't Answer Choice A a case of negating your S&N conditions?

I understand how to get to PPS or PPC-> Not Advocate of totalitarian state, but isn't saying No PPS-> An Advocate of totalitarian state the same as just negating both sides? I thought that was a flawed way to get to an answer?

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Jay-Etter January 23, 2022

Hi Amandla,
Note that A isn't saying No socialist -> totalitarian, but is rather saying
If socialist -> not totalitarian.

Our whole diagramming would be:
If soc/com 20thC phil -> influenced by R.L.
If influenced by R.L. -> Not totalitarian.
Therefore:
If soc/com -> R.L. -> Not totalitarian.