Ethicist: Every moral action is the keeping of an agreement, and keeping an agreement is nothing more than an act of...

Emil-Kunkin on June 11, 2023

Hi, parallel logic questions do typically tend to be time consuming, but there are some strategies we can use for them.

I would start by diagraming and then anonymizing the original argument. By this I mean if we had a statement "all dogs are good, and all good things are cute" we would diagram as If D then G then C.

We can then anonymize this to if X then Y then Z. This makes it easier to see the pure logic flow.

However most time savings will come in the answer choices. I would look to the conclusions of the answer choices, and knock out the answer choices whose conclusions are not matching. For example, in this question we know the initial conclusion is "some Xs are not y." While in this question most of the answer choices are in this format, we can often knock out several answer choices in this way.

The other main thing is to knock out any answer that doesn't exactly match the initial setup. If the first sentence is something wildly different from the passage structure, then you may not even have to read the whole answer choice.