Self-study
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Summary
The argument concludes that it’s impossible to satisfy a recommendation that regions with many Caronian-speakers be allowed to form an independent, Caronian-majority nation. This is because Caronian-speakers live in scattered areas that wouldn’t fit into a single continuous border without including a majority population of non-Caronian-speakers.
Notable Assumptions
The argument disqualifies the idea of a Caronian-majority nation on the basis that such a nation would be impossible within a continuous border. This assumes that it’s impossible to create a Caronian-majority nation with a discontinuous border—that includes several disconnected regions.
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The argument relies on which ███ ██ ███ █████████ ████████████
a
A nation once ███████ ██ █████ █████████████████ ██████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ ███████████
The argument doesn’t rely on a Caronian-majority nation having previously existed. In fact, this doesn’t affect the argument at all one way or another, so is not necessary.
b
Caronian-speakers tend to ████████ ██████████ ██ ████████████ █ ██████ ██████████
The argument’s analysis of whether it’s possible to create a Caronian-majority nation operates independently of how Caronian-speakers perceive themselves, making this not necessary.
c
The recommendation would ███ ██ █████████ ██ ███ ████████ ██ █ ██████ ██████ ██ ████████████ ████████
This must be assumed, because it’s the only way that the conclusion is supported by the premise that forming a continuous Caronian-majority nation would be impossible. If a disconnected nation were possible, the conclusion would be unsupported.
d
The new Caronian ██████ ████ ███ ███████ ██ ████████ ██████ ███ ████ ███ █████ █████████
The argument only cares about non-Caronian-speakers to the extent that they can’t form a majority in the proposed Caronian nation. Whether or not they will be citizens is irrelevant.
e
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The typical language situation of most nations is irrelevant to whether it’s possible to create a new Caronian-majority nation.